Featured Reviews

The Cattleman (2025) - Aaron Gwyn  (Grade:A-)

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A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) (2021) - Ferenc Horcher  (Grade:A-)

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Haunting Olivia (story) (2005) - Karen Russell  (Grade:A+)

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The Upper Berth (story) (1894) - Francis Marion Crawford  (Grade:A+)

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The Beckoning Fair One (story) (1911) - Oliver Onions  (Grade:A-)

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Elo Havel (story) (2020) - Brian Evenson  (Grade:A+)

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The Shining (1977) - Stephen King  (Grade:C-)

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Phantom Thread (2017) - Paul Thomas Anderson  (Grade:A-)

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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was born in Paris, FR on November 14, 1840.

P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) was born in Toledo, OH on November 14, 1947. Read Orrin's review of Parliament of Whores : A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) (Grade: A)

George V. Higgins (1939-99) was born in Brockton, MA on November 13, 1939. Read Orrin's review of The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1971)(Grade: A)

C. Vann Woodward (1908-) was born in Vanndale, AR on November 13, 1908. Read Orrin's review of The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)(Grade: B)(#70 on the Modern Library Top 100 Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 13, 1850. Read Orrin's review of Treasure Island (1881)

Tracy Kidder (1945-) was born in New York, NY on November 12, 1945. Read Orrin's review of House (1985) (Grade: B)

Roy Jenkins (1920-2003) was born in Abersychan, Wales on November 11, 1920. Read Orrin's review of Churchill: A Biography (2001)

Carlos Fuentes (1928-) was born in Mexico City, MX on November 11, 1928. Read Orrin's review of The Old Gringo (1985)(Grade: C+)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., (1922-) was born in Indianapolis, IN on November 11, 1922. Read Orrin's review of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)(Grade: C)

Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born on November 11, 1821. Read Orrin's review of Crime and Punishment (1866) (Grade: C)

Howard Fast (1914-) was born on November 11, 1914. Read Orrin's review of Spartacus (1951)

John Phillips Marquand (1893-1960) was born in Wilmington, DE on November 10, 1893. Read Orrin's review of his Pulitzer Prize winner The Late George Apley: a Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937)(Grade: B)

Martin Luther, born in Eisleben [ICE-lay-ben], Saxony (1483). He was 33 when, "for the purpose of eliciting truth," he tacked his 95 thesesóor propositionsóonto the door of Wittenberg's castle church (October 31, 1517).

Roland Emmerich, director of The Patriot (2000), was born in Stuttgart, Germany on November 10, 1955.

Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) was born in Oryel, Russia on November 9, 1818. Read Orrin's review ofFathers and Sons (1862)(Grade: A+)

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was born in Dublin, IRE on November 8, 1847. Brothers Judd recommends his seminal horror masterpiece Dracula (1897)

Margaret Mitchell (1900-49) was born in Atlanta, GA on November 8, 1900. Brothers Judd recommends her mondo best seller Gone With the Wind (1936)

Albert Camus (1913-60) was born in Mondovi, Algeria on November 7, 1913. Read Orrin's review ofThe First Man (1995)(Grade: A+)

Arturo Sandoval (1949-) was born in Artemisa, Cuba on November 6, 1949. Read Orrin's review of For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) (directed by Joseph Sargeant 1925-)

James Jones (1921-77) was born in Robinson, IL on November 6, 1921. Read Orrin's review of his National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity (1957)(Grade: A+)(#62 on the Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the Century)