All posts tagged "1950s"
The Fourth Wall
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...
Fiction Reviews
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
April 3, 2025On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
Politics
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
March 12, 2025Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
February 12, 2025Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
January 3, 2025There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...
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Movies
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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
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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