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...
Book Review: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
October 15, 2025So for those who may have been a little lost amidst the religious politics of The...
Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
October 15, 2025Magic is all around us, if only we’d pay attention more—if only we’d dream. Maybe then...
Book Review: The Hillary Effect by Taylor Marsh
October 13, 2025There may not be space in a blog post to let the reader weigh the words...
Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
October 11, 2025For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
Book Review: The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
October 9, 2025The “cat’s table” is the place where the least important passengers on the ship are seated...
Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
October 4, 2025Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
Book Review: Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon by Martin Kemp
September 30, 2025The Vietnam War had been shredding bodies and hopes for so long that it hardly seemed...
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