Essays
… infamous Scala Cinema in Kings Cross, London, would be a falsehood. My first viewing of Dawn of the Dead was on a bog … doesn’t appear for a good 25 minutes is also amazing, coming after a memorably chaotic opening in a TV studio on … to know them so well that you don’t want any of them to die (not even Roger). That’s a remarkable feat for a …
… It depends on what you’re looking for in a literary companion. Gabriel Conway, the protagonist of Ciaran … is to say that his still-unnamed lover’s handwriting reveals her character much the way her name will, assuming, that … carve bits of meaning from it. It is true that British soldiers repeatedly have thrown Carson against walls and …
Criticism
… War historian Robert K. Krick’s latest book—an eclectic but compulsively readable collection of ten essays on Robert E. … of course, at the hands of his own men. Pursuing the Federals in the moonlit darkness after his storied flanking … error. Indeed, within 12 months he would be named a brigadier general. But James Lane, who continued to serve in the …
… in the past decade. One of the more controversial recent studies on slavery was a two-volume work by Robert W. Fogel and … School, has produced in “Justice Accused” an interesting combination of legal history and jurisprudential analysis. … of the drama surrounding the decisions of the four principals. The treatment is starkly legalistic, with relatively …
Art
… rhythms of her obsessions with both the news and radio, rituals that reach back to childhood. (She was reading the New … night.) Radio, she says—the voices found there—has kept her company all her working life as an artist. And she is, … began curating, arranging stories into sets. Engler had completed a year-long project before (365 days drawing each …
… The Devil to Dinner ‘Who euer casts to compasse weightye prise And thinks to throwe out thondring … fun as to be part of an evening at a theatre, as actor, audience or play-maker. And so I wish I hadn’t found out that … poured into gutters and man is the poorer. But gluttony is also a sin. One day the Devil and Mrs. Noah, who was born a …