The Pope and Mussolini
Reading David Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini:The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe will be a …
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
If you’ve never read anything about life in the trenches during World War One, Birdsong: A Novel of Love and …
Xiao Hong — Women in Rural China
Some months ago I saw The Golden Era, a recent movie by Ann Hui about a ground breaking Chinese woman writer …
Restrepo — Documenting Soldiers In A War
Hand-held verisimo video has been much in the news lately, bringing, at long last a change in perception about the reality …
1,000 Times Goodnight – a Film about Temptations (of death)
I am a great admirer of Juliet Binoche, as many movie goers are; if she’s in a film I’ll go out of …
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Can we talk?!” Joan Rivers peppered her routines with her signature riff, aggressive and not a question at all, but …