Dan Stevens: A Not-Quite-Star Worth Watching
Dan Stevens has become not a movie star, but a genuinely interesting and entertaining movie actor.
Magazine: Books, Arts & Manners
It Ain’t a Word!
So if you’ve been saying that certain terms are “not words,” please cease and desist forthwith. What you can say is that it’s a nonword.
A Composer Who Matters
Penderecki had his own vision, all life through, and he was faithful to it, whatever it was at any given time.
The Costs of Virtue-Signaling
A review of Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk, by Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke.
William Tecumseh Sherman: A Warrior in Full
A review of The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman, by Brian Holden Reid.
The Gods We Worship in a Secular Age
A review of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, by Tara Isabella Burton.
Alternatives to Climate Alarmism
Reviews of False Alarm, by Bjorn Lomborg, and Apocalypse Never, by Michael Shellenberger.
Who Were the Never Trumpers and What Motivated Them?
A review of Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites, by Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles.
Palm Springs Is Groundhog Day for Millennials
My guess is that the shadow of Groundhog Day loomed, like Punxsutawney Phil’s on a winter morning, over the construction of the ending.
How I Learned to Appreciate the Star Wars Prequels
For all their terrible screenwriting and wooden acting, the Lucas prequels were at least trying to extend the original trilogy.