Polansky reminds me what a loss David Foster Wallace was, with a New York Observer review of John Updike’s Toward the End of Time from 1997: I’m guessing that for...
Socially conservative Republicans end up visiting prostitutes and/or tapping their feet in airport bathrooms as a means of soliciting homosexual sex much in the same way that redistributionist Democrats seem...
The late John Updike was renowned as a renaissance man. Prolific to the last, he wrote dozens of novels, and all manner of cultural essays. I’m embarrassed to admit that...
In an orgy of narco-trafficking cinema, I recently watched The French Connection and the Infernal Affairs trilogy (upon which the inferior The Departed was based). Both films are full of...
Not content with being labeled a Trotskyite, Bill Kristol is now aiming for Maoist with a piece in the Weekly Standard entitled, “Let 1,000 Republican Flowers Bloom.” The piece itself...
I’m not terribly fond of opera…just have never been able to get into it. But this is opera we can all get behind. h/t Pajiba
