
James Bowman
It’s sad but not surprising that even now, after the terrible political price that she and the administration she has…
Blindness, a novel of 1995 that was translated into English in 1999, was written by the Portuguese Communist Nobel Prize…
Journalists love clichés for the same reason that Homer loves his epithets. Like the wine-dark sea or the rosy-fingered dawn,…
A new book by professor Marjorie Garber of Harvard, Shakespeare and Modern Culture, is coming out next month to show…
In an interview with the New York Times to coincide with the release of their new film, Burn After Reading,…
A pretty disgusting movie that revels in its own grossness and thinks you should find it funny and profoud.Not that…
Not surprisingly for so highly visual and realistic a medium, the movies generally take a pretty dim view of God….
Every August, as regularly as the geese fly south for winter, there are complaints in the British press about the…
As soon as someone tells me that one particular political measure or decision is the right or moral choice and…
Longtime readers will know that I am a skeptic about the possibilities of epic cinema. Epic and movies sort ill…