Book reviews
He’s Got Mail
March 2020 was a very bad month for Stephen Starring Grant. He was hustling to New York City for a…
The Kids Stay in the Picture
In his new book, Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies, Bruce Handy…
Jews in Revolt
Jews are said to be noted for their resilience, resilience defined as the ability to successfully…
Sam Altman Has Some Unfinished Business
Just a few months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—the viral artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that…
Days of Wine and Junkets
Around two decades ago, I worked for the London offshoot of Condé Nast as an online writer for GQ.…
The Revolution That Fell Short
Radical mythology deemed December 14, 1825, the beginning of the Russian revolutionary movement.…
Do I Have to Spell It Out for You?
Spelling reform has gotten a bad rap—cast usually as an intellectual dead end if not the exclusive…
The Senator Will Not Yield
A time traveler to the quarter-century of Charles Sumner’s service in the U.S. Senate—from the early…
Unforgiven
To discern whether someone was Catholic in 1897, you needed to ask only two questions. What didn’t…
Gisele Unfettered
In Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind World, the steely…
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