
Leonora Cravotta
The American Spectator’s founder and editor-in-chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., suggested that I review for these pages Michael Mann’s latest…
Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia By Illeana Douglas (Lyons Press, 352 pages, $40) Hollywood has…
It is hard to believe that it has been forty years since the release of Trading Places (1983), the comedy…
“It’s Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive,” Miles (Jack Black) declares to…
The Warner Brothers By Chris Yogerst (University of Kentucky Press, 360 pages, $34.95) I visited Hollywood California in the summer…
Le Temps Des Combats (The Time of Battles) By Nicolas Sarkozy (Fayard, 592 pages, $43) Like clockwork, every time former…
Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up By Rand Paul (Regnery Publishing, 408 pages, $33) His newest book, Deception: The Great Covid…
Après la déconstruction: L’université au défi des idéologies By Emmanuelle Hénin, Xavier-Laurent Salvador, and Pierre-Henri Tavoillot (L’Odile Jacob, 482 pages,…
Barbie, the much-anticipated, pink-painted summer blockbuster, has generated a broad spectrum of visceral responses from critics and moviegoers since its…
Education is like a precious ruby hanging from an invisible chain around your neck. Once you have acquired it, it…