A collection of 129 posts
In ‘American Fiction,’ director Cord Jefferson brings a devil-may-care effrontery to bear on the culture of self-censorship, progressive pieties, and artistic hypocrisy.
“Things were bleak, they really were. Yet nobody was singing about that side of life, which is why we thought we should.”
Jeffrey Herf has made a scholarly commitment to document the words of Islamic Jew-hatred from their origins in Egypt and wartime Berlin. That has made him a lonely voice in the American professoriate.
In his latest novel, Tom Piazza imagines the finest meeting of American minds never to have happened.
A charming exhibition at London’s Charles Dickens Museum provides a fascinating glimpse into the private lives of two great English writers.
Costin Alamariu’s (AKA Bronze Age Pervert's) doctoral dissertation is attracting a lot of interest but it doesn’t add up to much.
A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case.
Muthukrishna’s new book presents a fundamentally optimistic narrative, brimming with ideas and concepts.
Jeff Sharlet’s new book is a stark and dispiriting dispatch from Trump country.
A new documentary looks back on the life and work of satirist, novelist, and New Journalist, Tom Wolfe.
A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran.
Samuel Moyn’s analysis of what ails liberal societies is fatally compromised by his own socialist commitments.
“The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.”
Richard Hanania’s new book is a welcome entry to the conversation about wokeness, but his power-based perspective is incomplete.
An individualistic focus only goes so far in preventing scams and frauds.