I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985. A book attacking the frivolity of television seemed, well, frivolous, ...
Democrats can claim whatever they want, I suppose, but as English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley once said, “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Chris Roemer resides ...
It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book ...
Widower Frank Szatowski’s driving record is unblemished at UPS, but parenting has proven more challenging; he’s been estranged from his daughter Maggie for years, and fears that he’ll never speak to ...
As far as Phoebe Davis is concerned, love is to be avoided at all costs. Why would you spend your life worrying about something that turns you into a complete moron? If her best friend Polly is ...
a non-fiction book chronicling Hill's mafia career. The result is the perfect basis for what's probably the best gangster biopic ever. Brilliantly directed and with some stunningly great ...