Tuesday, August 30 2011
Your Brain in the Voting Booth
President Obama may not be everything people’s brains deceived them into thinking he was, but he’s who he said he would be all along.
Thursday, April 8 2010
Bulletproof Salesman
The filmmakers seem to deliberately avoided asking hard questions; resulting in a film which often seems like an infomercial and which will no doubt bring this arms-dealing firm some additional business.
Tuesday, March 30 2010
The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn
Flynn’s obsessive nature may force his locomotive mind off the rails, but he dutifully and beautifully records what’s illuminated by the sparks.
Monday, February 15 2010
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Entirely too long at 117 pages, Don DeLillo’s latest novel was inspired by an installation at the Museum of Modern Art in 2006 called 24 Hour Psycho.
Friday, December 18 2009
Best Actor: Ben Foster Delivers in ‘The Messenger’
This year's best independent film happens to contain three of the year's finest performances. The unlikely trio of Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster shine in this war-themed drama.
Friday, March 20 2009
The Gamble by Thomas E. Ricks
By the time Ricks brings his narrative to a close, he has solidly proved his point, namely that in the most basic reckoning, the surge can be said to have worked.
Thursday, October 16 2008
POV: Soldiers of Conscience
Soldiers' moral struggles tend to remain invisible, like the situations that drive them. Soldiers of Conscience shows the dilemmas and the costs of war.
Friday, August 15 2008
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
This superb small novel isn’t about war or politics at all, but about, in the face of guilt and horror, choosing whether to die and how, if that is the choice, to live.
