Review
Ludwig Hohl belongs in the line of such lucidly contentious thinkers as Karl Kraus, Pascal, and Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.
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The range of Kurt Elling’s repertoire is astonishing and his program at Jimmy’s was commensurately ambitious.
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This anthology, for all its occasional sadness, is optimistic about the future of immigration to America.
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The selection of foreign films on offer at the BFI London Film Festival was of a very high quality.
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No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
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Fans will be pleased that time around director Wes Anderson has shot off everything in his stylistic quiver.
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At the very least, Ionesco’s drama about the unreality of the world should produce shudders as well as chuckles.
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Jacques Cousteau’s journey, from wannabe pilot to protector of the seas, is chronicled in a new documentary.
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Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”
Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.
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