
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
November 6, 2025Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....

Book Review: Good in a Crisis by Margaret Overton
November 5, 2025By withholding nearly all the details of her marriage, upbringing, and formative relationships with men (and...

Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
November 3, 2025It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...

Book Review: Odditorium: Stories
November 1, 2025While the collection of eight stories has its highs and lows, Pritchard’s newest book offers an...

Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
October 30, 2025Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...

Yes Academy, We Do Need To Talk About Kevin
October 26, 2025This film will upset you. This film will follow you home and haunt you. This film...

Book Review: Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
October 25, 2025Obsessed with the idea of apocalypse, the child whose world is on the verge of unwinding...

Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
October 19, 2025George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...

Book Review: The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
October 17, 2025In 2008 Roberto Bolaño’s 900-page epic 2666 was published. Appearing out of relative obscurity, Bolaño’s novel...
Book Review: The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex: What’s Wrong With Modern Movies? by Mark Kermode
October 17, 2025His opinions, though held intensely and vocally, are often unpredictable: he has long maintained The Exorcist...













