Book Reviews Articles

The Whale is probably the most formidable entry in the 2023 Oscars, though it has not been nominated for best film. In this film adaptation of Samuel Hunter’s one-act play, the circumstances that lead to a reclusive, massively obese man giving writing lessons online...

A rereading of "City of Quartz" by the recently departed Mike Davis is necessary to appreciate how brilliant it is, with insights dripping from every page, delivered in writing that is beautiful in its smoldering anger. Who else could convey, by invoking the metaphor...

Stalin by Ronald Grigor Suny is not a hatchet-job on Stalin like many other works by liberal scholars. Based on documents in Soviet archives made available after the Soviet collapse, this is a surprisingly even-handed account of the Soviet leader's pre-Russian...

Others have made the point that America has a caste system, but no one has made it as effectively as Isabel Wilkerson. By a close comparison between the US caste system and those of India and Nazi Germany and weaving the evidence from decades of sociological...