After half a decade of critical adulation, Godard’s career slumped into doctrinaire Maoism, bitterness, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance. It never recovered.
We have lost an important scientist; we have also lost a wonderful man.
Today, most of John Braine’s work is out of print and forgotten. But he was an underrated writer, unafraid to confront the complexities of masculine sexuality with terse precision, self-deprecation, and emotional candour.
A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.
In the modern world, it is easy to forget our connection to celestial objects and how important that connection has been throughout human history.
John Landis’s 1978 comedy classic ‘Animal House’ is a time capsule from an era when humor and campus politics were very different.
In the ninth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes a Roman diplomat’s famous fifth-century journey into the heart of Hunnic territory.
Attending to Shakespeare on his own terms may allow us to reclaim the erotic warmth that is latent in our human condition.
A look back at J.G. Ballard's ‘Crash’—one of the the 20th century’s greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels.
Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified what has become a defining feature of modern activism—“the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.”
Werner Herzog’s new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary.
An Artist's Response to James Kierstead’s “The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps"
The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal
A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper.
Just because we can imagine something terrible happening, that does not mean it will happen.