All posts tagged "1950s"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
November 7, 2023Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
September 26, 2023There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Let Him Have It, #69
September 1, 2023As the days tick down, you’ll start to sweat. As the hanging occurs—graphically and efficiently—you may...
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Books
Book Review: In One Person by John Irving
August 30, 2023And therein shines the beauty of Irving’s tale, who we used to be as a society...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
August 15, 2023A potential reader sizing up Liza Klausmann’s new novel, Tigers in Red Weather, would do well...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
July 29, 2023The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and...
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The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 17, 2022The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 25, 2022In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
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Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
September 7, 2022Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
September 4, 2022Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
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