In Jane Russell’s first movie role in 1943, her bra was the star, even though it didn’t seem to be there. The publicity posters for The Outlaw, directed by Howard [...]
I’m thinking I’m not a great fan of books that tell the story of a great movie. Not that I’ve read that many. I found Philip Gefter’s Cocktails with George [...]
Growing up and living female in America is a perilous endeavor. There is the gropy swimming coach, the miscarriages, the catcalls as you ride your bike, the malicious male colleague, [...]
Throughout Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson examines the nature of God’s forgiveness and its contrast with the tendency of humans to demand vengeance or justice. The case of Cain arises several [...]
On the last pages of his landmark book about his concentration camp experiences, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl recalls a prediction from Sigmund Freud about what would happen [...]
In eight of the stories collected in This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tadeusz Borowski describes life in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Four others [...]
By chapter 16 of Ed McBain’s 1960 novel See Them Die, the reader has gotten deeply invested in the book’s characters, particularly China, a sweet, beautiful, happy nineteen-year-old, and Jeff, [...]
Last year, on her Harlequin album, Lady Gaga belted out a song that was nearly a century old: “Forget your troubles, c'mon, get happy. You better chase all your cares [...]
General readers, beware! Tom Comitta’s new book Patchwork isn’t for you. Patchwork isn’t for someone who wants a novel that tells a story and has characters and settings and scenes. [...]
Ernie Banks and Minnie Minoso are the headliners in Don Zminda’s book Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Minoso and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams. But [...]
