“A Dreadful Plague in London Was”
What Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” can teach us about the COVID-19 pandemic....
What Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” can teach us about the COVID-19 pandemic....
Leo Braudy on Acting Otherness and the Academy Awards....
The Ten Best Books on Warfare...
Pete, I have heard you play that melody for all of twenty years.” “Fifteen, but who’s counting?” — Lee Hays and Pete Seeger on The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (1955) ONE OF THE FREQUENTLY dismissive terms for the people who ...
Plimpton: The Movie...
Leo Braudy discusses the Hollywood Sign and what it means as an icon, as a historical artifact, as a monument, as a beacon, along with the history of Hollywood as a place and an idea....
As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads....