Commentary
Robbie Robertson was born and raised in Canada but he seemed to understand the American myth better than most of his southern neighbors did.
“Free Them All”‘s analysis of the broken prison system and the obstacles facing those determined to find solutions combines scholarly discipline with a powerful, emotional appeal for justice.
Tony Bennett’s enthusiasm for life and music was persuasive, even when it seems outsized.
Black and openly queer women are not allowed in the Nashville club. Secretly gay white men are not doing too badly, though.
Theater companies all over the country are cutting back or shutting down. And the bad news just keeps coming.
Long before the current writers’ strike, Hollywood was sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI.
The battleground is where technology meets art meets finances.
Any reader curious about the multifarious and complex relations between academic values and branding will find much to mull over in these essays.
A conversation with author Stephen Vladeck who has been called out publicly by Justice Samuel Alito for his criticism of the Supreme Court’s abuse of the shadow docket.
Film Commentary: The Heights and Depths, the Rise and Fall, of Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”
In the end, what strikes me most about “Vertigo” is its melancholy, its aura of grief, its mood of inevitable, irredeemable loss.
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