Having just gone through the third of the medicine shows we call presidential debates, it is something of a relief to go from the ridiculous to the sublime. For the Catholic, that ...
Jeet Thayil. Narcopolis. London; Faber & Faber, 2012. 292 pp. Jeet Thayil's debut novel Narcopolis is the book that coulda-shoulda won the Man Booker Prize for 2012. ...
Francesco Schettino, the 52-year-old captain of the cruise liner Costa Concordia, began his pretrial hearing last week in the small Tuscan city of Grosseto. The Costa Concordia ...
NEW YORK—It’s a black-and-white 1939 oldie starring Barbara Stanwyck and William Holden in his first credited film role. She is thin, ballsy, bawdy, beautiful, and talks with ...
The price-gouging sweatshop-clothing chain The Gap is enduring a tempest in a T-shirt over a $30 “designer” tee featuring the words MANIFEST DESTINY. What is being ...
They played "The Internationale" at Wednesday's funeral of Eric Hobsbawm, Britain's "greatest historian." No one took offense. Indeed, all felt uplifted. The ...
Trust me: you haven't really met a hard-left feminist virago until you've met an Irish ...
“Your future is in Hollywood—I can make you the next Bela Lugosi,” said James Toback looking at me straight in the eye. Jimmy Toback is a hell of a fellow. An obsessive with ...
As promised last week, here is Part II of random ruminations on my fifteen minutes of worldwide fame six months ago. But first a housekeeping note. Some commenters and emailers ...
How'd you like a few rashers of that with your breakfast eggs and ...
Rian Johnson's critically acclaimed Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as young and old versions of the same time-traveling assassin, asks the question: If ...
Joseph Sobran: The National Review Years. (Vienna, Virginia: FGF Books, 2012.) Recently I received the galleys for the anthologized essays and book reviews by the late, great Joe ...
Obama and his family cost us about 1.4 billion " yes, that's "billion" with a "b" " 1.4 billion dollars a ...
One of the downsides of being special is that you feel out of place wherever you go. I don't understand half the stuff people like and I suspect they don't either. Take cigars, ...
I had my weekend nicely planned. Saturday: small catch-up stuff, paperwork, and household repairs. Sunday: Write a book review I’d promised for midnight deadline...oh, and ...
Our era's dominant narrative focuses lavishly on gays, who are portrayed as society's powerless victims. Yet gays themselves don"t find the party line very interesting. They ...
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