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...
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
July 17, 2026Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 15, 2026No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
July 15, 2026On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
July 15, 2026America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
July 15, 2026Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
July 15, 2026“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
July 14, 2026Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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