Imag(in)ing America
July 6, 2022
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: M, #45
January 29, 2022A child murderer is terrorizing the city. The police hunt is intense, but fruitless. So the...
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Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
October 24, 2021The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
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Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
August 11, 2021Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
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Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
October 14, 2020All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
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The Weekly Listicle: Ballad Of The Soldier
September 2, 2020This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by...
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Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
August 16, 2020Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...