Thick as Thieves
November 19, 2018
In Widows, what should cause tonal whiplash is, in Steve McQueen’s hands, disquieting, exhilarating: capital-R Real.
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Fresh Hell
November 16, 2018
Interview with the Breakfast Cereal Vampire
Solutionism for Students
November 15, 2018
The authors of "The Coddling of the American Mind" diagnose a generation of students and then offer a cure—mass therapy.
It Happened in Vegas
November 15, 2018
The Culinary Workers Union tips the mid-term elections in Nevada.
Mr. Difficult Jr.
November 14, 2018
The new "William Gass Reader" celebrates the great essayist and philosopher—but it's Gass's fictions that will stand the test of time.
Fanatical Moderate
November 13, 2018
In Dear Zealots, Amos Oz is unwavering in his commitment to a Jewish nationalism as simple and brutal as any other.
The Business He’s Chosen
November 13, 2018
Tucker Carlson shed his bow-tie, and the kind of deferential comportment it symbolized, years ago.
Myopia Rules
Even when Democrats win, centrist pundits advise them to concede ground.
Fresh Hell
November 09, 2018
Golden Girls, Golden Arches
Vigo Shrugged
Indiana Democrat Joe Donnelly ran a textbook centrist campaign. And lost.
If It Looks Like a Duck
November 09, 2018
How to read How to Read Donald Duck in 2018.
The Price is Wrong
November 07, 2018
Without incisive critique or explosive insider information, the spectacle of The Price of Everything wears thin.