Dec 19, 2022
“Metropolitan”: a classic, but not just for Christmas
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On the 1990 film by Whit Stillman.
Topic: “Film”
Apr 05, 2021
Gagging on the silver spoon
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On the eccentric businessman Harold McCormick, his wife Ganna Walska & the inspiration behind Citizen Kane.
Jun 03, 2020
Fake news on film
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On Mr. Jones, Walter Duranty & Soviet Russia.
Notes & Comments April 2020
Cancel culture comstockery
On Woody Allen and the Hachette Book Group.
Apr 05, 2019
Week in review
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On Ian Buruma, Bergman the novelist, Toulouse-Lautrec & more.
Mar 05, 2019
Raising the dead
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On They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson’s documentary about World War I.
Jan 04, 2019
Week in review
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On Shelley, shame storms, a copyright jackpot & more.
Dec 07, 2018
Stanley Kubrick’s photo odyssey
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On “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs” at the Museum of the City of New York.
Nov 29, 2018
John Simon & James Panero discuss “Critics & criticism”
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A conversation occasioned by Simon’s essay in our November 2018 issue.
Oct 04, 2018
Spaced out in the nation’s capital
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On the opening of Washington’s musical season.