Dare to Be Brilliant
Nolan’s kaleidoscopic biopic may be his most ambitious picture to date.
Brad Strotten
· 4 min read
Review
A collection of 123 posts
The Eyes of the Storm
A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney.
Hannah Gal
· 14 min read
A Life in the Fray
A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.
Jeffrey Herf
· 22 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms
The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.
Lea Booth
· 8 min read
What Even Is ‘Trans’?
A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans'
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
What Lies Beneath
In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.
Sean Welsh
· 14 min read
America Doesn’t Need Regime Change
Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right.
Damon Linker
· 16 min read
The Real Cost of Cheap Labour
Michael Lind's 'Hell to Pay' presents a dire cautionary message to the political establishment.
Sohale Mortazavi
· 9 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz
An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man.
David S. Wills
· 15 min read
A Declaration of Decadence
Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.
Robert Zubrin
· 7 min read
World War Z
A new book by historian Ian Garner investigates how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia into a fascist society.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
Uncomfortable History
Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 5 min read
Crisis Management
Martin Wolf’s new book is a work of sombre brilliance, but it fails to grapple effectively with the postliberal analysis of what ails liberal democracies.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
A Universe of Fizzled Stars
Is failure to succeed as bad as the fall from success?
Thomas Larson
· 11 min read
Heavy Lifting
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s ‘Fit Nation’ offers a fascinating but frustratingly selective history of America’s physical fitness obsession.
Joe Lombardo
· 10 min read