A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
July 19, 2026Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
July 19, 2026For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents...
Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey
July 19, 2026To take on one of Dorsey’s books is to suspend notions of political correctness (thankfully) and...
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
July 19, 2026When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 18, 2026Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
July 17, 2026There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 17, 2026Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
July 17, 2026Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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