BY NEIL FAUERSO Recently released in the U.S. for the first time, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army…
Arts & Entertainment
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN In The Devil Wears Prada, the cute, unstylish girl-next-doorAndy (Anne Hathaway) gets…
BY NEIL FAUERSO The Proposition has understandably sunk at the box office andreceived little fanfare—after…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN “A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained,and chaste. A virtuous…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN John Peterson finally saved the family farm by starting AngelicOrganics,a CSA that…
BY NEIL FAUERSO V (Hugo Weaving, in the shadows) protects Evey (Natalie Portman) in V…
It’s possible to take issue with the text of Pirate’s Alphabet, a recent children’s book…
It’s time to look into Santa’s sack for some great new regional books from the…
BY rob cline Often, when folks discover what an avid reader I am, they shake…
Fame is the foodstuff of modern culture. Andy Warhol once famously suggested everyone should enjoy…
It’s a month from my 40th birthday, and I’m packing up my books. Again. I’ve…
Here is Katherine Fischer’s dream of the Mississippi: “The river slides through our grasp and…
A parlor is a place for special visitors, and on Wednesdays this summer, the parlor…
“When I first picked up the manuscript for The Kite Runner, I knew I had…



