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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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
December 23, 2025The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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Oh, Those Crazy Modern Victorians: Or What the Heck Is Steampunk?
December 20, 2025While there is a sense of pride in having created something so wonderful, there is also...
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx
December 7, 2025Where do I start with Annie Proulx? Where does anyone start with Annie Proulx? Certainly not...
Book Review: HHhH by Laurent Binet
November 22, 2025What results, however, is an awkward success story. Unseasonably dedicated to fact and accuracy, positively frightened...
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I Say! Hammer Plans A Woman In Black Sequel?
November 14, 2025The Hammer Studio has announced a sequel, but what are we to expect in revisiting the...
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Blu-Ray Review – Battle Royale: The Complete Collection
November 11, 2025Quentin Tarantino proclaims ”My favorite movie of the last 20 years! I wish I had made...
Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott
November 10, 2025Sketching the parameters of Baggott’s palimpsestic narrative is tricky. Briefly put, the backstory of the novel...
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