Category Archives: Reviews 2005-Present

  • How Britain Became Civilized

    0 May 11, 2022 standard

  • A Forced and Unequal Marriage

    0 August 30, 2020 standard

  • Seeing Maggie Whole

    0 December 11, 2019 standard

  • The Greatest Victorian

    0 August 29, 2019 standard

  • Rhapsodizing About the Pictures

    0 January 11, 2018 standard

  • Meritocratic Getting and Spending

    0 September 18, 2017 standard

  • Call to Arms

    0 November 29, 2013 standard

  • Literary Lothario: A New Life of Martin Amis

    0 May 1, 2013 standard

  • The Overlooked Prose of a Great Poet

    0 April 1, 2013 standard

  • Moscow Under Terror

    0 March 1, 2013 standard

  • Indelible Images

    0 March 1, 2013 standard

  • The Education of Virginia Woolf

    0 December 1, 2012 standard

  • Jazz Standards

    0 November 1, 2012 standard

  • Sex Lives of the Novelists, plus Post War Expulsions and the Book of Common Prayer

    0 September 1, 2012 standard

  • LBJ’s Better Angels, plus the Power of Big Oil

    0 June 1, 2012 standard

  • REVISING THE ESCORIAL, PLUS THE WONDERS OF WONDER BREAD

    0 June 1, 2012 standard

  • Night Owls, plus the Greatness of that Great White Dominion, New Zealand

    0 April 1, 2012 standard

  • Gods, Graves, and Scholars

    0 March 1, 2012 standard

  • The Perfect Wife, plus Saul Bass

    0 January 1, 2012 standard

  • Updike’s Last Essays, plus the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street

    0 December 1, 2011 standard

  • Police and the Poet: New York’s Crime Drop, T.S. Eliot’s Dark Days

    0 November 1, 2011 standard

  • Great American Cynic

    0 October 1, 2011 standard

  • Bitter Crossing

    0 September 1, 2011 standard

  • The Architect of the City

    0 March 1, 2011 standard

  • The American Critic

    0 November 1, 2010 standard

  • Prep is Dead, Long Live Prep–plus Habits of the Heartland and Ed Koch’s New York

    0 October 1, 2010 standard

  • Play’s the Thing

    0 May 1, 2010 standard

  • The Prince of Paramount

    0 March 1, 2010 standard

  • California Dreamers

    0 July 1, 2009 standard

  • Designer’s Designers

    0 March 1, 2009 standard

  • Geography is Destiny

    0 December 1, 2008 standard

  • The Reel Thing

    0 November 1, 2008 standard

  • Intolerant Chic

    0 October 1, 2008 standard

  • A Bit of Punctuation: Ted Muehling

    0 September 1, 2008 standard

  • On Oscar Niemeyer

    0 July 1, 2008 standard

  • America’s Think Tank

    0 June 18, 2008 standard

  • Black Saturday

    0 April 1, 2008 standard

  • Life in the Margins: The Book of Hours and the History of Private Life

    0 October 1, 2007 standard

  • Stalin’s Gift

    0 May 1, 2007 standard

  • That Sweet Enemy

    0 March 1, 2007 standard

  • Path of Least Resistance: A Shabby Episode for the French, A Volatile One for the British

    0 October 1, 2006 standard

  • Chairs, Rag Mags, Indian Wars

    0 July 1, 2006 standard

  • Fire From the Sky

    0 June 1, 2006 standard

  • Modernism, Minimalism, Fundamentalism

    0 May 1, 2006 standard

  • Lee and Sherman, plus the Morality of the Civil War and a Bleak Take on Israel

    0 April 1, 2006 standard

  • Another 5001 Nights at the Movies

    0 March 1, 2006 standard

  • Not-So-Second City, plus the Glories of Victorian Civic Culture

    0 January 28, 2006 standard

  • Cutting-Edge Fashion, Mao, the Triumph of American Painting

    0 December 1, 2005 standard

  • War Without End

    0 November 1, 2005 standard

  • A Foreign Country

    0 October 1, 2005 standard