James Bowman
The other week, Barack Obama came up with what he doubtless saw as a snappy comeback in answer to Hillary…
Graham Greene’s 17-year-old gangster, Pinky, the hero of Brighton Rock (1938), was said to know “everything in theory, nothing in…
Among the things I disliked about the very talented Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie There Will Be Blood, perhaps the thing…
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens identifies John McCain as the presidential candidate of “American honor” and says that…
It may at first seem surprising that Charlie Wilson’s War, written by Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”) and directed by…
Traditional romances approach love by focusing on the other: that is, the uniqueness, the perfection, the irreplaceableness of the Loved…
For me, the most memorable moment of Nanking, the new documentary by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, comes in an…
Those who have read Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement, published in 2001, will know that there is a kind of trick…
There’s just one problem with August Rush, Kirsten Sheridan’s determinedly inspirational and occasionally charming fable of an orphan boy who…
Probably, you’ve got to be a second- or third-generation Italian-American from Queens properly to appreciate Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding, the…
