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The Dramatic Category of a Margaret Thatcher Biography
There is a telling sentence near the beginning of Martin Filler’s NYRblog post about Meryl Streep’s performance of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady that is likely to frame the attitude of those of us who still enjoy the study of history. After...
Getting Out of the Shadow of History
Recently, while reading Milan Kundera’s extended essay, The Curtain (in Linda Asher’s translation from the French), I came across the following remark: The novelist’s ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what...
Life Imitates Art (ironically)
Of the many amusements I encountered while reading Gabriel García Márquez’ The Autumn of the Patriarch, the funniest was the bit about how the protagonist (who is a rotting corpse for the duration of the novel) had opened a retirement community...
Giving More Credit Than is Due
Simon van Zuylen-Wood has a nice piece on the Web site for The New Republic about Newt Gingrich’s “Earning by Learning” plan for education reform. This is the one that involves giving kids cash incentives for such things as reading books over...
Trying Again to Escalate the Television Mentality
About two years ago I wrote a post entitled “Yasmina Reza’s Guilty Pleasure?,” basically as a way to blow off some personal steam over the news that Reza’s play God of Carnage was the hottest ticket on Broadway. I wrote as one who had seen...
Confusing the Reader
Normally, my rants over sloppy news coverage are directed at Yahoo! However, every now and then a blooper pops up from the other side of the pond; and fairness dictates that I recognize that more reputable sources blunder, too. It was not that long...
Netflix Members in the UK And Ireland to Enjoy Instantly Watching Films From MGM And Its Distribution Partners
Netflix Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. have announced a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive subscription streaming service in the UK and Ireland for most first-run feature films from MGM. How People Arrived...
Yahoo!’s Enquiring Minds
Here is the latest example of a headline from what Yahoo! News thinks deserves to be included in their “News For You” list: Eat the Old: Could Mass Cannibalism Solve a Future Food Shortage? I assume that most of us know that P. J. O’Rourke was...
