All posts tagged "1930s"
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Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
November 20, 2024Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: M, #45
October 11, 2024A 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
August 30, 2024In the midst of a dinner party in his honor, Capone (Robert De Niro) takes out...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Public Enemy, #23
August 24, 2024Cagney, along with Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and, later, Humphrey Bogart, invented the film gangster....
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Dillinger, #83
July 8, 2024Dillinger is a B-movie and doesn’t attempt to be more than that. There is not a...
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Design
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
May 5, 2024Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
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Books
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
May 4, 2024The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
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Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
March 4, 2024Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
January 3, 2024Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
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Fiction Reviews
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
December 29, 2023Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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