All posts tagged "1930s"
Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
August 7, 2026Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
Fiction Reviews
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
August 2, 2026Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 2, 2026It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
July 3, 2026Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
June 27, 2026They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 20, 2026Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
History
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 4, 2026Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: M, #45
February 13, 2026A child murderer is terrorizing the city. The police hunt is intense, but fruitless. So the...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Untouchables, #28
January 5, 2026In the midst of a dinner party in his honor, Capone (Robert De Niro) takes out...
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