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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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was born in Cummington, MA on November 3, 1794. You assuredly remember reading Thanatopsis in school.

Bette Bao Lord, author of In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (1987), was born in Shanghai, China on November 3, 1938

James Knox Polk (1795-1849) was born in Mecklenburg County, NC on November 2, 1795.

Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) was born in Corsica (now Blooming Grove), OH on November 2, 1865.

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was born in Newark, NJ on November 1, 1871. Read Orrin's review of The Red Badge of Courage (1895)(Grade: A)

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther set off the Protestant Reformation when he posted his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace.

Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (1932-) was born in Qing Jiang, Jiangsu, China on October 31, 1932. Read Orrin's review of Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

Don Winslow (1953-) was born in New York, NY on October 31, 1953. Read Orrin's review of A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991)

John Adams (1735-1826) was born in Braintree, MA on October 30, 1735. In one of life's more delightful ironies, he and his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration which they cowrote.

Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972) was born in Hailey, ID on October 30, 1885.

Henry Green (Henry Vincent Yorke)(1905-73) was born in Tewkesbury, England on October 29, 1905. Read Orrin's review of Loving (1945)

James Boswell (1740-95) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 29, 1740. His Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) essentially created the modern biography.

Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born on in London, England on October 28, 1903. Read Orrin's reviews of A Handful of Dust (1934)(Grade: B) Scoop (1937)(Grade: B+), Brideshead Revisited (1945)(Grade: C) and The Loved One (1948) (Grade: A)

Dylan Thomas (1914-53) was born in Swansea, Wales on October 27, 1914. He is best remembered for his poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955) (Grade: A)

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, MA on October 27, 1932. Brothers Judd recommends her book The Bell Jar (1963), bad reviews for which were supposedly the proximate cause of her decision to kill herself.

Francis Fukuyama (1952-) was born in Chicago, IL on October 27, 1952. Read Orrin's review ofThe End of History and the Last Man (1992) (Grade: A+)

Pat Conroy, born in Atlanta on October 26, 1945

Beryl Markham (1902-1986) was born in Melton Mowbray, England on October 26, 1902. Read Orrin's review of her extraordinary memoirWest With the Night (1941) (Grade: A+)

Anne Tyler (1941-) was born in Minneapolis on October 25, 1941. Read Orrin's review of Breathing Lessons (1988)(Grade: C)