All posts tagged "1930s"
Russia
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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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100 Greatest Gangster Films
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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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Public Enemy, #23
December 29, 2025Cagney, along with Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and, later, Humphrey Bogart, invented the film gangster....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Dillinger, #83
November 11, 2025Dillinger is a B-movie and doesn’t attempt to be more than that. There is not a...
Art
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
August 30, 2025Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
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