Book Review: See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
January 25, 2026Through the invocation of epic prose forms and literary allusion, Kincaid elevates the nuclear family drama...
Book review – Judy Battalion’s Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
January 19, 2026Review of BATTALION, JUDY. Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s...
BOOK REVIEW: THE PLAQUE: THIS IS OUR COUNTRY, TOO
January 18, 2026The book begins in the present time, but this is a story that goes back more...
Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
January 6, 2026Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....
Book Review: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
January 1, 2026Like its monsters, Red Moon is an impressive hybrid—a speculative novel about fairy tale horrors, a...
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Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
January 1, 2026The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...
Book Review: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
December 31, 2025An enterprising Japanese capitalist, presumably in conjunction with the state, recruits women from all over the...
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
December 28, 2025A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
December 27, 2025On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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Blind Boys, Berkeley Blue, Phone Hacks and Wozniak
December 25, 2025The earliest phone phreak I’ve been able to identify was a young man who went by...
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