When All ‘Sense’ Takes Its Leave Of Us
The afflicted party starts to grieve without warning, compelled by unseen forces to pause mid-stride and remember an entire life’s …
‘Big Miracle’: A Whale Tale As The Cold War Wanes
When it’s mammal-saving time at the movies, the plot typically unfolds as a pitched battle between critter-loving gods and oil-drilling …
When A ‘Windfall’ Isn’t Quite What It Seems
Not even the most ecologically minded are always keen on the prospect of giant wind turbines near their homes. But …
A Study in ‘Black’: By-The-Numbers Horror Still Scares
Candles and cobwebs, cries from the marsh, fog machines on overdrive, a secluded manse stuffed to the rafters with eerily …
Flush Poets Society: Donnelly’s ‘Cloud Corporation’ Wins Six-Figure Prize
“Poetry” and “money” are rarely found in the same sentence, unless a practitioner of the former is lamenting his dearth …
Things Fell Apart: Tony Judt’s ‘Twentieth Century’
“Without history, memory is open to abuse,” writes Tony Judt in Thinking the Twentieth Century. Perhaps more than anything else …
Wislawa Szymborska, Poet Of Gentle Irony, Dies At 88
The surest path to international fame as a poet probably doesn’t involve writing short poems about sea cucumbers. Yet for …
The Producers Behind NBC’s Musical ‘Smash’
Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan have been making musicals together for almost 20 years. They’re the team behind movie …
Fired And Foreclosed!: Unemployment Lit
Like many of its readers, the novel has always lived for the weekend; historically, the workaday world of the office …
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