Roger Kimball on Susan Sontag
Many lit blogs have re-awakened from their holiday slumber to post links and thoughts on the passing of Susan Sontag. I am not really that familiar with Sontag&...
Author: Kevin Holtsberry
I work in communications and public affairs. I try to squeeze in as much reading as I can while still spending time with my wife and two kids (and cheering on the Pittsburgh Steelers and Michigan Wolverines during football season).
His Dark Materials Film: Opportunity lost?
Much gripping has been heard across the blogosphere regarding the film version of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy. People are upset because t...
Julia and the Dream Maker by P.J. Fischer
Being a rather restless person, I often enjoy books whose plots are unconventional or whose stories center around something fantastic. This interest cuts across...
Nazis in the White House, Job in New Jersey?
I have said it before, and I will say it again: If you aren’t reading the New Pantagruel you should be. Being absent minded and easily distracted, I regul...
Modernism?
Rick Brookhiser on Modernism over at National Review Online’s The Corner: Modernism was a fashion in the arts. It began in French poetry in the mid/late n...
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton’s latest novel State of Fear is an ambitious experiment: to fuse an anti-global warming polemic with a techno-thriller. Did he pull it off? Y...