It’s summer time and for many that means hitting the beach for sand, sun, and, perhaps, some seashell collecting? If the latter happens to be
One hundred years after his passing Mark Twain is about to reinvent himself. Though published in redacted form several times already, Twain’s autobiography will finally
Still causing quite a stir almost a month after Glenn Beck’s endorsement pushed it to the top of Amazon’s sales rankings, F. A. Hayek’s The
The Telegraph recently ran a review of two new books on two of the greatest names in twentieth century jazz. In his review Ian Thomson
A recent review of Martin Preib’s The Wagon and Other Stories from the City for barnesandnoblereview.com begins by citing the some of the recent media
The New York Review of Books‘ NYR Blog has a review of Robert K. Elder’s Last Words of the Executed, posted yesterday by NYRB contributor
The New York Society for Ethical Culture has posted an interesting video on Youtube of Massimo Pigliucci, author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell
As the temperature tops 100 degrees on the east coast many, especially in major urban centers, are bracing for the consequences. As history has shown,
This month’s free e-book: Making Patriots by Walter Berns—a pithy and provocative essay that attempts to answer the question of how patriotism has flourished throughout
Barbara Yngvesson is our latest author to take Marshal Zeringue’s “Page 99 Test.” On his blog of the same name Zeringue asks authors to flip