The hot genre right now is the reboot: from Percival Everett’s James (his take on Huckleberry Finn) to Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead (an update of David Copperfield), we’re awash with classic ...
03.14.2025 Dailymail.co.ukThe bone lay on the plate, long and smooth and bare. I had roasted the 1. 95kg leg of lamb to perfection and made it last over two nights with lunch in between, and now that it was picked clean, the b...
03.11.2025 Nzherald.co.nzBrandon Fick Sask Book Reviews Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene is the first collection of nonfiction published by Guy Vanderhaeghe, one of Cana...
03.13.2025 Paherald.sk.caThe archives of The New Yorker, housed at the New York Public Library, consist of more than 2, 500 boxes of manuscripts, letters, page proofs, cartoons, art, photographs and memos. They are studded wi...
03.10.2025 Dnyuz.comRuth Graham’s long profile of Aaron Renn for The New York Times has put Renn’s “Negative World” silliness back in the spotlight. “ He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel ” the headline to Graham’s article says of Renn’s theory. That’s true, provided that you understand “Christians” to mean “white evangelical Christians. ” And also that you understand “many” to mean “extremely divorced old white guys seething with resentment over that time somebody corrected them for saying ‘colored people’ ...
03.11.2025 Patheos.comWith one thousand dollars in her pocket, my mother went on a European tour in June 1957 , when she was twenty-three years old. She took a ferry to England and caroused across several conti...
03.10.2025 Jewishbookcouncil.org[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Wednesday, March 12, episode of Jeopardy! ] Although there was a returning champion on Jeopardy! , fans think that the most exciting part of the epi...
03.12.2025 The-messenger.com and 1 sitesMore than any president in memory, Donald Trump is attuned to aesthetics. This should scarcely come as a surprise, given that Trump is our first builder-turned-president. In his previous vocation as a...
03.14.2025 Gazette.comThe Final Jeopardy question (3/12/2025) in the category “Authors’ Other Works” was: In an 1833 story by her, an alchemist’s assistant drinks a potion giving eternal life but ends up seeing all he love...
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