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January 4, 2018
Screening Room: ‘The Strange Ones’
The Strange Ones opens this week in limited release. My review is at Film Journal International: The ease with which the …
Nota Bene: Music for the Masses
From Alex Ross’s “Handel’s ‘Messiah’ on Skid Row“: The first performance of “Messiah,” in Dublin, in 1742, was, according to …
January 3, 2018
Nota Bene: Top Risks for 2018
Earlier this week, the risk assessment firm the Eurasia Group published their take on the Top Risks that the world …
Note Bene: Top Risks for 2018
Earlier this week, the risk assessment firm the Eurasia Group published their take on the Top Risks that the world …
January 2, 2018
Reader’s Corner: Bowie’s Books
In honor of his father’s prodigious and wide-ranging reading habits—Hitchens to Stoppard to Chabon, Carter, and Chatwin—David Bowie’s son Duncan …
January 1, 2018
Department of Resolutions: Best Movies of 2017
Now that we’re done with Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and the listing of resolutions soon to be broken, …
December 31, 2017
Writer’s Desk: What Dickens Said
As a belated seasonal homage to A Christmas Carol, this week’s writing advice comes courtesy of Charles Dickens, who never saw …
December 24, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Write About Cats
This one should speak for itself. Per the Times: The author of the short story “Cat Person,” which became a viral phenomenon after …
December 23, 2017
Reader’s Corner: Best Graphic Novel of the Year
Every year, the good folks at Publishers Weekly ask all of us lucky writers who review comics for them to put …
December 21, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Hostiles’
The latest movie from Scott Cooper (Black Mass) is a pitch-black, viciously violent Western starring Christian Bale as a cavalry …
