James Bowman
My first unaccompanied car-purchase, when I was older than I would now care to admit, was of a blue, six-year-old…
ALL CULTURE begins with commemoration of the past and honor rendered to the dead. The oldest literary monuments in the…
In case you were worried, the New York Times review of Emilio Estevez’s The Way will reassure you that “This…
It’s a law of narrative as old as narrative itself: if the prophecy comes true, you’ve got a story; if…
Whenever I hear someone say that someone else is toast, meaning he’s dead, fired, finished, kaput or has lost something…
There’s more than one kind of movie fantasy destined to end up in the DVD bargain bin, and The Hedgehog…
Manohla Dargis, opens her New York Times review of Bennett Miller’s Moneyball by calling it “a movie about baseball in the…
What a good thing, I’m sure we can all agree, that oppressed black people in Mississippi in 1963, though they…
Why does the cultural and political traffic between the U.S. and Europe so often involve our borrowing the worst features…
Strange, isn’t it, that the more (officially) pacifistic and nonviolent our society becomes, the more incendiary and warlike our political…
