Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
June 1, 2026This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
Great Britain
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
June 1, 2026To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman
June 1, 2026He is not much impressed with modernity, rejecting with certitude McDonald’s transfatty fries, the inter-state highway...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Friendship is the First Step to Peace: A Review of Picture Books that Highlight Our Getting Along
June 1, 2026Sometimes, feeling different is the root of feeling lonely. Ezra Jack Keats’ whimsical Regards To The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
May 31, 2026...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
May 31, 2026"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
Fiction Reviews
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
May 30, 2026This relationship — Mari, plain and studious; Eri, "gorgeous" and shallow — is our first intimation...
Fiction Reviews
Book of Hours
May 30, 2026Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...
Sex
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
May 29, 2026Repression, fear and even loathing run through her mind as she braces herself for what is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Sophie Osborn on Saving the California Condor
May 29, 2026"I think hunters need to start demanding more research into the human health impacts of hunting...
Non-Fiction Reviews
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Discusses Hip Hop’s Attitude Toward Women
May 29, 2026"The title was inspired by Snoop Dogg. It captures the ethos of the new gender politics...
Linguistics
Once Upon A Time
May 29, 2026Suppose one’s made a viable, literate translation that succeeds in conveying the narrative or expository sense...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Novelist Nicole Mones
May 29, 2026"I know food is hot right now – we have the Food Network – but believe...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With “Pistol Pete” Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel
May 29, 2026"One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice....
Architecture
An Interview With Louis Kahn Biographer Carter Wiseman
May 28, 2026"I think the most powerful common thread running through Kahn’s work was his humanity. He seems...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Allen Shawn Discusses Phobias
May 28, 2026"When I finally encountered the concept of ‘agoraphobia’, I recognized myself. I have an intense fear...
Environment
Brave New West: Something Entirely Different
May 27, 2026Are environmentalists really prepared to embrace a simpler, less materialistic life? Or do they still want...
Movies
Family Values
May 27, 2026Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
India
Believers and Infidels
May 27, 2026For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
May 27, 2026In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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