Nixon in China, John Adams's opera based on Richard Nixon's détente-seeking 1972 visit to the People's Republic, has Kissinger pirouetting, Chairman and Madame Mao dancing the tango, and Pat Nixon touring a factory delighted at the ...
As if it were the center of the frickin" universe, celebrity physicist Stephen Hawking's new book The Grand Design rocketed atop the publishing cosmos and reached #1 on Amazon even before its official release date last Tuesday. The ...
The afternoon has gently passed me by The evening spreads it’s sail against the sky Waiting for tomorrow, just another day God bid yesterday good-bye Bring on the night I couldn’t spend another hour of daylight Bring on the ...
In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed to turn up. Distance was not the issue, given that her house was only twenty minutes from the French lycée ...
Noam Chomsky's new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike: Chomsky is a conservative. It might surprise him as well. After all, he is a socialist and a libertarian. The ...
At the height of the fashion for post-modernism, the camp panjandrum of late 20th century American architecture Philip Johnson described Norman Foster as “the last modern architect,” suggesting that his broad adherence to ...
It’s always stimulating to discover a quality writer you didn’t know before. For a conservative, it’s doubly stimulating if the discoveree is of the same persuasion. And in an age when the middlebrow novel is as close ...
Edward O. Wilson's new book, Anthill: A Novel, is, in many ways, a traditional first novel: it's primarily a quasi-autobiographical fictional retelling of the author's childhood and young manhood. Anthill is the tale of Wilson's alter ...
Most people know Robert Crumb as that esoteric cartoonist from the 60s who did the "Keep on Truckin"" guy. Comic nerds like myself, however, see him as the second coming of Christ. He has completed dozens of graphic novels ...
For those unaware, the literary world is currently aflutter over a scandal involving yet another freshman novelist accused of plagiarism. Helene Hegemann, daughter of famed German dramatist Carl Hegemann, recently released her ...
When A Moveable Feast was published in 1964, I had been living in Paris for six years. I was 27 and in love with Papa Hemingway’s favorite city, one that he described as “a mistress who always has new lovers.” One didn’t speak ...
Under Discussion: The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts, Wayne Allyn Root, Wiley (2009), 400 pages. When I decided to read Wayne Allyn Root’s latest ...
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