Book Reviews
When the murder mystery and the campus satire collide
The campus novel may have its origins in the early 1950s with Mary McCarthy’s satire The Groves…
Review of ‘Clint: The Man and the Movies’ by Shawn Levy
Most lives would be more than adequately covered by biographies released when the subject was…
When books were actually banned
Every fall, the American Library Association publishes a list of banned books during its Banned…
New book on police shootings tries to answer big questions in public life
It’s now been more than a decade since the death of Michael Brown, and half a decade since the…
Review of Hal Ebbott’s ‘Among Friends’
“All happy families are alike,” Tolstoy wrote, “but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own…
In search of the Indo-Europeans
This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey…
Review of ‘Rewriting Hisstory’ by Jeff Kisseloff
As a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers who has studied the historiography of the famous events…
Clint Eastwood’s worthy new biography
The new book Clint: The Man and the Movies—A Comprehensive Biography of Hollywood’s Most Iconic…
The rise of the Pinkertons
Some brands become so dominant in their function that their names eclipse generic terms. We ask…
The terrible fate of John Milton
Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked…
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