Race is a notoriously difficult subject to address in the United States, but David Henry...
The Folger Theatre has given us a fine production of Shakespeare's play about the rise...
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) was an Armenian who emigrated to Canada as an adolescent and be...
Ben and Marian Mendelssohn love each other deeply. After Marian dies in a freak accide...
The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC is staging the U.S. premier of British playwright ...
Charles McCarry is arguably the greatest American practitioner of spy fiction. He him...
Jhumpa Lahiri has been an uncommonly sensitive, elegant, and restrained writer. Her f...
I recently read this novel first published in 1946. It is a very well done thriller. ...
Religion can make strange bedfellows—or has done so once at least . Yaakov Ariel...
The theme of this intriguing book is captured by Claes G, Ryn when he writes in "The...
This is a play, in part, about the romance of communism and how it plays out in one Jew...
Unemployment is high in the United States and there are countless demonstrations becau...
This Claude Miller film is a fairly quietly done, competent adaptation of the Francois...
The Attack is a largely quite effective film about a fictional suicide bombing of an Isr...
This, the last novel of Austrian Jewish writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939), is quite thought...
I have written previously in this publication about the French film director Eric Rohmer...
The Company You Keep is a fictional drama about former members of the violent radical ...
I recently saw, for the third time over a space of many years, this well-made (though ...
I have written elsewhere of Eric Rohmer (http://stkarnick.com/?p=4963), one of the great ...
No music I have ever listened to have I found so utterly compelling as that of the recentl...
I have heard of Wendell Berry for a long time but I have only read a few of his essays and...
God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945, by Raymond Haberski Jr., is a history of...
“William, I didn’t know you were an art fiend!” William turned his head and saw D...
Dr. Frazer, a professor at a Christian college, has written an analysis of the religious b...
The Third Man (1949)is a very interesting collaboration of director Carol Reed, screenw...
“I don’t know.” These are the final words of Sound of My Voice and might be taken...
Recently I had the good fortune to attend a screening of Stranger on the Third Floor (19...
“From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlarge...
Before seeing this excellent documentary, I knew little about William Colby beyond the fac...
The Nero Wolfe detective story series of Rex Stout (1886-1975) is, deservedly, one of the ...
The 2010 Israeli film Naomi (the Hebrew title actually means Outburst X or Eruption X) has...
Abraham Merritt (1884-1943 was a very popular fantasy writer. Since his death, his works...
Halloween approacheth, a season in which it is particularly appropriate to read horror s...
