Startling Intimations of Greatness
As we await the release of Woody Allen’s 50th feature film, his biographer looks back on the career of one of America’s great cinematic artists.
David Evanier
· 26 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 726 posts
Two Hundred Years of Stendhal
2022 marks the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age.
Robert Zaretsky
· 11 min read
Napoleon in Rags
Jann Wenner’s attempt to set the record straight only confirms the unattractive picture painted by his critics.
David S. Wills
· 13 min read
Getting Fletch Wrong
Jon Hamm’s portrayal is an improvement on Chevy Chase’s goofball routine, but still bears little relation to the amoral cad in Gregory McDonald’s novels.
Kevin Mims
· 16 min read
The U.S. and the Holocaust—A Review
Ken Burns’s new six-hour documentary is a work of extraordinary synoptic power and intelligence.
Thomas Doherty
· 16 min read
Against Authenticity
To be human is to be artificial.
Bo Winegard
· 7 min read
The Infantilization of Culture and History
We should reject an unfalsifiable frame that can make anything and everything offensive or problematic, no matter how innocuous.
Alan S. Rome
· 9 min read
Adult Fantasy of Youth
A look back at Bertolucci’s 2003 film, The Dreamers.
Marilyn Simon
· 13 min read
“I Believe in America”
Fifty Years of ‘The Godfather‘
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
The Delia Demolition
Why is the Atlantic slinging mud at the 72-year-old author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ on the eve of the film’s release?
Kevin Mims
· 19 min read
Céline, Literary Antichrist
If we demand that our artists be angels, we will not have any art left to appreciate.
RJ Smith
· 9 min read
Children of the Counter-Revolution
Sexual liberty reconsidered.
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
Troubadour at War
Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour.
Ari David Blaff
· 8 min read
McCartney at 80
Four score years of ordinary genius.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 22 min read
Has Olivia Manning’s ‘Fortunes of War’ Finally Found Its Moment?
The Ukrainian war has made Manning’s writing more relevant now than at any time since it was written.
Robin Ashenden
· 11 min read