All posts tagged "1950s"
Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
May 3, 2026There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Let Him Have It, #69
April 12, 2026As the days tick down, you’ll start to sweat. As the hanging occurs—graphically and efficiently—you may...
Books
Book Review: In One Person by John Irving
April 11, 2026And therein shines the beauty of Irving’s tale, who we used to be as a society...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
March 31, 2026A potential reader sizing up Liza Klausmann’s new novel, Tigers in Red Weather, would do well...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
March 15, 2026The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
June 16, 2025The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
May 27, 2025In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
May 9, 2025Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
Vietnam
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
May 5, 2025Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
Fiction Reviews
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
April 5, 2025She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
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