Explorations of Love
Early in this book, material for which originated in a highly successful Notre Dame course now available on iTunesU, philosopher and classicist David O’Connor puts the point of the investigation ...
Addicted to Risk
The Gambler, starring Mark Wahlberg as Jim Bennett and directed by Ryan Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), is a remake of a minor classic from the early ...
Do the Right Thing
Steven Knight’s Locke begins with its eponymous character, a British skyscraper-construction foreman named Ivan Locke, getting in his well-appointed BMW to drive to London to resolve a pressing personal problem. ...
Terry Teachout’s Satchmo Opens in NYC — Don’t Miss It
A sure way to break the winter doldrums along the East Coast is to attend the New York theater production of Terry Teachout’s Satchmo at the Waldorf, a thoroughly entertaining ...
Romancing the Phone
Spike Jonze’s new film, Her, is a love story about a man, Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), and his futuristic Operating System, the self-named Samantha (voice by Scarlett Johansson). In a ...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Justin Chadwick’s Long Walk to Freedom is the life story of Nelson Mandela, based on Mandela’s autobiography of the same name, from his youth to his ascension to political power ...
Essential Ellington
In a passage quoted by Terry Teachout in this new book, T. S. Eliot writes: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets ...
The Exorcist at 40
Garnering a great deal of attention in this, its 40th-anniversary year, The Exorcist remains the most terrifying film ever made. Re-released in a Blu-ray edition with new commentary tracks and ...
12 Years a Slave
In his treatment of slavery in the American South in Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville contrasts modern with ancient slavery. While ancient slavery, he wrote, typically aimed to constrain ...
Real Men of West Monroe
In one episode of the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty, which is about a family-run business in West Monroe, La., that manufactures duck calls, CEO Willie Robertson installs cameras at ...