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Friday, June 5, 2026

Stalingrad: War and Peace for the Twentieth Century

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Vasily Grossman ’s Stalingrad is an ambitious novel, and remarkably, it succeeds in its vast ambition. When Grossman set out to tell the st...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Everything Must Go: A Review

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Dorian Lynskey ’s Everything Must Go is a fascinating tour through humanity’s long obsession with the end of the world. Part literary histo...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Mittelbau Dora--The Death Camp That Made V-2 Rockets

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  Mittelbau-Dora , located near Nordhausen in central Germany, was one of the most brutal and technically driven camps in the Nazi system. E...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics by David Stipp: The Joy of Understanding!

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  A Most Elegant Equation by David Stipp  is a small book about a large idea: that mathematics, at its deepest level, is not a collection o...
Friday, May 8, 2026

Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills--The Gettysburg Address Moved America from Constitutional Compromise to Aspiration

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  Garry Wills ’s Lincoln at Gettysburg is a short book with a large argument: that Abraham Lincoln , in just 272 words, redefined the meani...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Beautiful, Suggestive, and Not Quite Convincing: A review of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

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  Zoë Schlanger ’s The Light Eaters : How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth is an elegant...
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Einstein's Cosmos by Michio Kaku

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  Michio Kaku’s Einstein’s Cosmos is a lively, accessible tribute to the great physicist that mixes biography with clear explanations of th...