Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein (Free Press, 269 pages, $29.99) In the introduction to his autobiography, out this month from Free Press (sorry, this doesn’t mean you don’t…
Editor’s Note: When asked why, after thousands of years and millions of words, he felt that the world needed still another book arguing the case for God’s existence, Evan Sayet said: I wanted to write a book for the lay-reader…
Last week, the Canadian actress Ellen Page, who now goes by the name “Elliot” and claims to be a man, delivered a speech at the Juno Awards — Canada’s equivalent to the Grammys — in which she argued that “the…
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Philip Gefter (Bloomsbury Publishing, 368 pages, $32) If you’ve never seen the 1966 movie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols…
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television By Foster Hirsch (Knopf, 672 pages, $40) If you listen to the Left, the 1950s…
Chronic readers of this column are surely aware that one of my favorite authors, who also happens to be a personal friend, is Kurt Schlichter. Kurt has written eight novels in his Kelly Turnbull series, and I’m not sure I…
Saturday mornings at The American Spectator are about to get a whole lot more fun. For the next 10 weeks, Scott McKay’s newest novel, King of the Jungle, will come out chapter by chapter. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa…
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson By Patrick Weil (Harvard University Press, 378 pages, $35) Had you told Mattie Ross that Woodrow Wilson’s reverence for his father indicated he…
It was a Capitol Hill press spokesman job for a conservative Florida Congressman that got me to Washington, D.C. in 1982, where I contracted no Potomac Fever whatever. JFK was right when he described Washington as a city of Southern…
