B.D. McClay

For the past month or so, ads for Showtime’s new television show Penny Dreadful have been a constant companion on my commute:…

Here’s a puzzle: Rebecca Newberg Goldstein has released a very solid and well-received book, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy…

My Life in Middlemarch By Rebecca Mead (Crown, 304 pages, $25) Here is a variation on a phrase you will…

There’s a scene in the second half of the Peabody Award-winning French TV show The Returned (Les Revenants) where two…

On March 16, Whit Stillman’s debut comedy, Metropolitan, left the Netflix streaming library. Such changes are routine—doubtless, Metropolitan will return. Still,…