All posts tagged "1930s"
History
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 & Design
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...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
August 29, 2025The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
June 20, 2025Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
April 14, 2025Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
Fiction Reviews
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
April 8, 2025Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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