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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11/08/25:

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)

Mike Nichols (1931-) was born in Berlin, GER on November 6, 1931. Read Orrin's review of What Planet Are You From? (2000)

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)