"When studied with any degree of thoroughness, the economic problem will be found to r...
The twenty-five tales of Freddy the Pig, published 1927-1958, constitute one of the cla...
Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was murdered, and a few mon...
Rapture, Blister, Burn is a smart, funny play that deals with three people who are brou...
"Quirky" is an overused adjective in describing independent films, but in the case of th...
In a way, the marvelous 1958 comic novel The Guide, by R. K. Narayan, is an undidactic ...
The Austrian Jewish writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was an elegiast of the Austro-Hungari...
I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition is a collection of twelve p...
Ridley Scott's film dramatization of the biblical Book of Exodus is ultimately a conve...
Film noir began in the United States around 1940 and continued into the 1950s. It was id...
Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) is one of the great masters of the cinema, yet his reput...
Tales of May-December romances can easily fall into cliched male fantasy: an attractiv...
Jews and the Left: the Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance by Philip Mendes....
After Hamlet, Julius Caesar is among my two or three favorite Shakespeare plays; yet I h...
Leo Strauss was undoubtedly one of the most important political philosophers of the twen...
The new film The Blue Room is based on a Georges Simenon detective story (which I have not...
This latest book by historian George M. Marsden is an insightful history and analysis of...
Orson Welles will likely always be most remembered for his first film, "Citizen Kane" ...
The Devil has often been written about and Marcus Kyd of the Taffety Punk Theatre Compan...
The stage setting for this latest play by Kathleen Akerley (who also directs it) is the...
Magic in the Moonlight, Woody Allen's latest flick, reprises some of his perennial theme...
“Jonas just texted me. His plane is due in at 1 a.m. He asks us to join him for dinner a...
The problem with a book like this is that it can easily overestimate the importa...
This 1996 film has at last been given a theatrical release in the United States....
Later this year, the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the First World War will ...
It is 1989 in Texas and Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall), a small business owner, ...
When the film Ida opens, Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), an orphan raised in a convent, is n...
The eleven tales that comprise the Lord Darcy series of Randall Garrett provid...
I am afraid I am pretty closed-minded when it comes to movie vampires. For me, film...
The Israeli television series "Prisoners of War" (the original Hebrew title, Hatufim, me...
In the closing credits of this,Wes Anderson's latest flick, it says it was ins...
The Lunchbox, written and directed by Ritesh Batra, is a sort of love story set in contemp...
