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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Dynamo by Eugene O’Neill

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Failed attempt at profundity I’m gradually working my way through the complete works of Eugene O’Neill, great American playwright and wi...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Rock and Roll, Part 3

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More music history and biography I occasionally review books on the history of rock and roll music. After reaching a critical mass of review...
Friday, March 27, 2026

The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist’s Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life by Nathalie A. Cabrol

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Discouraging recap of our quest for certainty Nathalie A. Cabrol, a French-American astrobiologist, is the director of the Carl Sagan Cen...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

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An exemplary narrative for armchair explorers Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892) was an English naturalist. His area of expertise was entomol...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley

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Ma Kettle’s Travelin’ Bookstore American author Christopher Morley (1890–1957) wrote or edited more than a hundred published books, but h...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris, edited by Nicole R. Myers and Katherine Rothkopf

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The beautiful book his work deserves The modernist painting style of cubism is generally considered to have been invented jointly by pain...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Birds and Man by W. H. Hudson

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More concerned with words than birds W. H. Hudson was born in Argentina to a family of English and Irish heritage. He grew up in South A...