Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are
August 3, 2026Although studios balked at the film’s maturity, believing it might be too scary for children, it...
Movie Review: Zombieland
August 3, 2026Zombieland elicits comparison to both the Brit “romzomcom” (romantic zombie comedy) and Dawn of the Dead...
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
August 3, 2026And those names: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the...
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
August 2, 2026The Bigness of the World, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the...
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
August 2, 2026Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
August 2, 2026Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 2, 2026It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 1, 2026Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...




