Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia By Illeana Douglas (Lyons Press, 352 pages, $40) Hollywood has…
Readers of the new memoirs of R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., our venerable founder of The American Spectator, expect a fun,…
Americosis: A Nation’s Dysfunction Observed from Public Transit By Sam Forster (Sutherland House, 146 pages, $26) One of poststructuralism’s simplest…
The week between Christmas and the New Year is unlike any other time of year. Hopefully, you have some extra…
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad By Harrison Salisbury ( Da Capo Press, 672 pages, $23) Eighty-two years ago, the…
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman’s Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the…
The Warner Brothers By Chris Yogerst (University of Kentucky Press, 360 pages, $34.95) I visited Hollywood California in the summer…
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance…
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter By Gary Saul Morson (Belknap Press:…