All posts tagged "1950s"
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Let Him Have It, #69
December 12, 2024As 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
December 10, 2024And 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
November 26, 2024A 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
November 10, 2024The 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”
March 1, 2024The 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
February 10, 2024In 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)
January 24, 2024Jackson 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
January 21, 2024Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
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Fiction Reviews
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
December 25, 2023She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
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Fiction Reviews
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
December 24, 2023On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
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