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Fidel and Raul
Culture

Forgetting Castro's Crimes

Review: Rafael Rojas, 'Fighting Over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution'

Joseph Bottum
January 30, 2016
Ghost
Culture

Believing in Ghosts

Review: Lisa Morton, ‘Ghosts: A Haunted History’

Joseph Bottum
January 23, 2016
Culture

Pour One Out for Prohibition

Review: Lisa McGirr: ‘The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State’

Joseph Bottum
January 16, 2016
refrigerator
Culture

Chill Out

Review: Tom Jackson, ‘Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again’

Joseph Bottum
January 9, 2016
Arlington National Cemetery
Culture

The Unhaunted Graveyard

Review: Thomas W. Laqueur, ‘The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains’

Joseph Bottum
January 2, 2016
Culture

The Second Day of Christmas

Essay: After reflection comes the chaos

Joseph Bottum
December 26, 2015
St. Pancras Midland Hotel
Culture

The Maddening Gothic Revival
of George Gilbert Scott

Review: Gavin Stamp, ‘Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott’

Joseph Bottum
December 19, 2015
Culture

Holy Fools

Review: Christopher Buckley, ‘The Relic Master: A Novel’

Joseph Bottum
December 12, 2015
Culture

He Wasn’t Hitler’s Pope

Review: Mark Riebling, ‘Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler’

Joseph Bottum
December 5, 2015
Culture

The Detection Club

Review: Martin Edwards, ‘The Golden Age of Murder’

Joseph Bottum
July 4, 2015