Wild Things
Where the Wild Things Are isn’t a kids’ movie, it’s “a movie about childhood.” That’s how director Spike Jonze describes his full-length screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic 1963 children’s ...
The Return of the King
Upon the release of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, many critics noticed that it seemed to borrow from Wagner’s Ring operas: Both stories traced a ring ...
Dawn of the Zom Rom Com
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in search of more brains.” So opens the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a ...
The Land Where Dreams Come True
Though you may have never heard of Neil Gaiman, if you walk through your local library you will find his world of dreams in nearly every section: young adult, graphic ...
Real Girl Power
It would be easy to say that girlhood is dead. Beyonce’s children’s line runs clothing ads encouraging us to upgrade our daughters’ “Boyfriend Out of Town” T-shirts to skimpy jean ...
Compass Points in All Directions
The recent success of The Chronicles of Narnia and the Lord of the Rings trilogy spilled a few drops of blood into the entertainment waters. It seemed that the genre ...
Sexy Education
A girl whose boyfriend assured her sex was “like doing the dishes.” A vengeful college student who coldly deserts her ex-boyfriend the morning after with, “I got what I came ...
Fire in the Senate?
David Freddoso just called in to the Washington office to say that they are evacuating the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Staffers are spilling out onto the street, and four ...
Uncle Tom’s Harem
In 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin gnawed into the hearts and consciences of the American people. More than just an exciting tale of fugitive slaves, family ties, and spiritual awakenings, the ...
Around the Web: 2008
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Clinton
If the Hsu Fits Washington Times
Edwards
Counterterrorism Proposal Washington Post
McCain
Petraeus May Give Him a Surge New York Sun
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