Category Archives: Reviews 1996-2005

  • Against the American Empire, Weil and Bespaloff on the Iliad, Understanding Dante

    0 April 1, 2005 standard

  • London Fashion, Great Books on the American Revolution, Harvard Gossip

    0 March 1, 2005 standard

  • V.S. Pritchett, a Riveting History of Dun & Bradstreet (Really), the Eastern Front

    0 January 1, 2005 standard

  • The Dictionary of National Biography, Encyclodepias of the Great Plains and of the Second City, Joy Williams

    0 December 1, 2004 standard

  • The South in Black and White

    0 November 1, 2004 standard

  • Norman Parkinson, Defending Israel, Anthony Powell, American Childhood, Life in the 1920s &’30s

    0 October 1, 2004 standard

  • Remembrance of Hopes Past: California on the Edge

    0 September 19, 2004 standard

  • Wolves, Actors, Jihadis, Abelard and Heloise

    0 September 1, 2004 standard

  • Colonial Virginia, the Prairie, Pontiac’s War, the First World War

    0 July 1, 2004 standard

  • The Reformation, Anti-War Fundamentalists, New Grub Street

    0 May 1, 2004 standard

  • Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, Redhill’s Stories, Byron & Shelley, Alexander Hamilton

    0 April 1, 2004 standard

  • That Never-Ending War

    0 March 1, 2004 standard

  • Dirty Little Secrets

    0 February 24, 2004 standard

  • How I Choose Which Books to Cover, Rosamond Lehmann, the Third Reich

    0 January 1, 2004 standard

  • Gay Talese, Catholic Intellectuals, American Theology, Brick Lane–and more

    0 December 1, 2003 standard

  • Saint George

    0 November 9, 2003 standard

  • Great Books on Southern Christians and Goethe, the Good Book, Albright’s Execrable Book–and more

    0 November 1, 2003 standard

  • A Jaundiced View of WWII, the Asquiths, Red Guards, Louis Kahn, Late Antiquity–and more

    0 October 1, 2003 standard

  • Notes From a Native Daughter

    0 October 1, 2003 standard

  • Masterpieces on Slavery and Occupied France, a Funny Books on a Nazi, Elspeth Huxley, John O’Hara–and more

    0 September 1, 2003 standard

  • The Trying Carlyles, Sybille Bedford, Lord Curzon, Bessie Smith–and more

    0 July 1, 2003 standard

  • Unworldly Love, Medieval Trade, Burnham’s Architecture, Orwell–and more

    0 June 1, 2003 standard

  • Taking Aim at Terrorism’s Myths

    0 June 1, 2003 standard

  • Nelson, Case Study Houses, the Course of German History–and more

    0 May 1, 2003 standard

  • The Stupid Pretensions of ‘Quality’ Publishing, Edith Templeton, Jonathan Edwards–and more

    0 April 1, 2003 standard

  • Gustav Stresemann, the Spanish Empire, Read an Old Book!–and more

    0 March 1, 2003 standard

  • Argentina, Aldous Huxley, Gin, Lewis and Clark–and more

    0 January 1, 2003 standard

  • The Archers, Histories of Colonial Town Planning, Germany, plus Books of the Year 2002–and more

    0 December 1, 2002 standard

  • Histories of Envy, Divorce, Witchcraft, the Movies, Dark Age Greece, Victorian Literature, Russia–and more

    0 November 8, 2002 standard

  • The Nuttiness of Publishing, Darwin, Linear B, How Sex Changed, Night in the Middle Ages–and much more

    0 October 1, 2002 standard

  • The Post-Powell Doctrine

    0 July 21, 2002 standard

  • Mencken on American Literature

    0 June 1, 2002 standard

  • The Golden State in War and Peace

    0 May 1, 2002 standard

  • Fighting Spirits

    0 April 28, 2002 standard

  • Armageddon Averted

    0 January 1, 2002 standard

  • The Real War

    0 June 1, 2001 standard

  • A History of the Second World War with the Battles Back In

    0 July 23, 2000 standard

  • I, Me, Mine

    0 July 9, 2000 standard

  • Forgotten Treasures

    0 December 26, 1999 standard

  • Peculiar Institution

    0 July 4, 1999 standard

  • One More River to Cross

    0 August 15, 1998 standard

  • Young Caesar

    0 February 15, 1998 standard

  • An Oxymoronic Strategy

    0 January 1, 1998 standard

  • Adams Family Values

    0 October 26, 1997 standard

  • The Paper Tiger Theory

    0 June 2, 1997 standard

  • Renaissance Loser

    0 May 26, 1997 standard

  • Angry White Rural Men

    0 November 4, 1996 standard