Well, now I know what it’s like being the full-time psychiatrist of a hyper-narcissistic celebrity. No, I haven’t gone to med school, been a psychiatric resident, and hung out a shingle. I’ve just read Elliot (formerly Ellen) Page’s memoir, Pageboy,…
Education is like a precious ruby hanging from an invisible chain around your neck. Once you have acquired it, it will always be with you. No one can ever yank it from your person. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly more…
The Pillowman, the acclaimed play by British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh (famous for The Lieutenant of Inishmore and the films In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin), has finally made it to London’s West End, 20 years after its debut. Why…
Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète By Bérengère Bonte (L’Archipel, 240 pages, $28) There’s no better promotional vehicle than controversy and scandal. Given this, journalist Bérengère Bonte’s timely provocative book about France’s current prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète (Élisabeth Borne, the…
The following is an exclusive Q&A between The American Spectator editor Paul Kengor and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on his new book, March to the Majority: The Real Story of the Republican Revolution, written with Joe Gaylord,…
Kate Shaw, a law professor at Yeshiva University, and Julie C. Suk, a law professor at Fordham University, published an op-ed in the New York Times on Tuesday that argues that the Constitution should be amended by passing the Equal…
Once called “the wickedest woman in New York” in the tabloids of the time, Madame Restell, the notorious abortionist of 19th-century New York City, is rebranded as a saintly “protector of women’s reproductive rights” in a new book by Jennifer…
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia By Simon Garfield (William Morrow, 400 pages, $30) In one after another of his books, Simon Garfield has played the role of a jaunty, joking tour guide, taking…
The World: A Family History By Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf, 1,344 pages, $45) Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book The World: A Family History, which will be released on May 16, is a catalog of moral, sexual, and political depravity, corruption, sadism,…
