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A Rewarding Experience Awaits
Stephen Schmalhofer spends time with an art retrospective guided by famed Met curator Philippe de Montebello.
Haiti’s Role in the American Civil War
Kyle Sammin reviews Carl Lawrence Paulus’s new take on foreign influences on American slavery leading to the Civil War.
On Dragon Hunting
Father Schall helps readers reflect on the questions raised by Heywood Broun’s 1921 short story, “The Fifty-First Dragon.”
Persuasion in the Age of Twitter
David G. Bonagura, Jr. welcomes a new edition that applies Cicero’s advice on rhetoric to a distracted age.
Two Cheers for Ultramontanism
Tyler Dobbs reviews John O’Malley’s riveting new history of the First Vatican Council and the nineteenth century emphasis on papal primacy.
The Scientific Case for an Alarming Utopia
Jeffrey Folks reviews Steven Pinker’s unintentionally chilling new book of scientism.
David Bowie and the Decade Science Fiction Took Off
Mark Judge reviews Jason Heller’s fact-heavy tour of pop music and science fiction in the Me Decade.
He Knew the Reason We Fight
Patrick Kurp welcomes Cynthia L. Haven’s new life of René Girard.
This Is Not How We Got Here
Sumantra Maitra is underwhelmed by the evidence presented in Timothy Snyder’s conventional new polemic.
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A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
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