Peter Ibbetson
Kirsti Potter
Alison Brown
Living History book by Hillary Rodham Clinton reviewed by Hilary Hammell
Don’t hate me for liking Hillary. She’s an easy target for cynics, not only for her political maneuvering but also…
Grow It Back: How Laser Phototherapy Stops Hair Loss and Regrows Your Hair by Tamim S. Hamid
There are many different types of hair loss books out there, ranging from “breathless miracle cure” types to highly technical,…
The Glass Palace book by Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh occupies a rather curious place in the landscape of contemporary English-language authors from the Indian subcontinent. At fifty-five…
Sex, Social Relationships, and Human Nature in Sexuality: Development, Cases, and Treatment: A Book Review
Psychologists Mike Abrams and Marija Milisavljević Grdinić recently published their newest treatise on human relationships and psychology, the academic textbook…
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination book by Katherine Harmon
The twentieth-century illustrator John Held, Jr., perhaps most famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age, was also a talented…
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear book by Jim Steinmeyer reviewed by Kirsti Potter
From time to time, magic and its modern practitioners still steal into the spotlight—even without counting the wily tricks of…
Money Games – Debt Freedom: The Fun Way to Get Out of Debt and Reach Your Money Goals
I am thrilled to write a review about the book “Money Games” by Heidi Ifland Nash. As someone who has…
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 book by John Updike
Charles Degar
In his 1986 introduction to a set of Paris Review interviews, John Updike quoted Philip Roth: “What I want is…
The Politics of Blame
At first glance, few would seem as well qualified to write about America’s performance in the war against terror than…
Goya Book Review by Robert Hughes reviewed by Katya Poltorak
While lying in a coma for five weeks, his disjointed, crushed bones held together by metal screws, Robert Hughes was…