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I have not read an Elena Ferrante novel, but I have seen S1 of My Brilliant Friend ,  and I have read a Natalia Ginzburg novel,  so I'm ...

James Bond was, in a phrase at the time, the man all men wanted to be and all women wanted to have. I have fond memories of a small book tha...

Robert McKee's criticism of Betty Blue was that it had no story: it was two hours of watching someone fall deeper into a violent madnes...

I don't usually do book reviews, because it's rare that I can just rave about something. This is one of those times. Death Come...

This book is about using the power of habit to change your lousy diet, infrequent exercise, your weight, and many other such things. The sec...

I read Bergstrom and West's book Calling Bullshit recently. It's the latest in a long line of books about how various people attemp...

Bessel van deer Kolk’s The Body Keeps The Score , which I read recently, has confirmed my long-held suspicion that almost all of the crazy, ...

According to James Wallman, we Westerners have around five hours a day of spare time, but feel we rushed and don’t have any time for ourselv...

Marc Myers writes about jazz for the Wall Street Journal, which must be a heck of gig, considering that there really isn’t that much to writ...

Recently I read Richard Taruskin’s Music in the Late Twentieth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Now, I get that the Oxford His...

I bought this book a while ago, but wasn’t in the mood to read what I thought it was until a couple of weeks ago. It isn’t a series of bleed...

Recently I read Richard Weight’s best-selling book on the Mod Movement . I assume it was best-selling, since it was out on the tables at Wat...

Susan Neiman is an American academic who may still be suffering the trauma of having both John Rawls and Stanley Cavell supervise her PhD. S...

Jack Donovan is famous for the idea that men should operate in gangs, and for being gay while saying so. He should be famous for the distinc...

I am alive really, it’s just that I’m not taking any photographs and the stuff I’m thinking about is stuff I’ve thought about before and I d...

We would have to shut the windows in the night against the rain and the cold wind would strip the leaves from the trees in the Place Contre...

(This mini-series was inspired by reading Robert Glover's Nice Guys Finish Last, which you don't have to pay to read if you know whe...