106 stories by "Harvey Blume"
Simon Schama just can't stop going on about religion and the extra-special Jewish feel for beauty that has, to his mind, kept Judaism vibrant and intact through the ages.
Everyone is a bit more stupid than they need to be in this movie, both the Germans and the Jews.
Significant changes in the world of the art museum can trigger roiling controversy or transpire in problematic quiet.
Powell, the translator, a respected classicist, is noted for promulgating the theory that the Greek alphabet was designed precisely in order to capture epic poetry, provide some approximatio…
Doris Lessing baffled categories and critics, except for those, like me, who were marked by her and knew her for the bold and extraordinary writer and creature that she was.
The late Arthur Danto was open to and appreciative of all sorts of possibilities in art, as other visual arts critics were not.
The moral urgency and the humane distribution of Adelle Waldman's authorial sympathy are evident everywhere in "The Love Affair of Nathaniel P."
In the first episode, Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes viewers back to Africa to talk, not as has been done before, with Africans whose forebears were lost to slavery but with descendants of Afri…
iIf we lift the fog hovering over the War in Vietnam what we find a story nearly unknown in the West: far from devising and launching the Tet Offensive, Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap con…
It's hard to grasp how Jonathan Lethem assimilated all this material " historical and fantastic " and gave it new narrative life in Dissident Gardens, except by granting, at the least, his …
The Attack is a movie that tries to get to the core of violence without dissolving into its depiction.
Writer Elmore Leonard, passed away on Tuesday, 8/20/13, 87 years old. Age no doubt chipped away at him physically but not so far as I could tell at his style and his prose.
My point is that whatever distinguished District 9 and made it so special is entirely absent from director Neill Blomkamp's blockbuster, Elysium.
I am a secular Jew who can't but welcome Zealot's conclusion that Christianity pulled a role reversal on Jesus, and made this failed revolutionary Jew into someone who eschewed his people an…
New media always abets the power to articulate fantasy and fetish.
The eccentric and charming "Computer Chess" focuses on a group of geeks concentrating on what they see as the infinite microcosm to be found on the sixty four squares of the chess board.
"Hannah Arendt" is a substantial and worthwhile portrait of the influential and controversial thinker who gave us the phrase "the banality of evil."
Author Christian Caryl ends "Strange Rebels" with the idea that "if the experiences of 1979 suggest one conclusion, it is that we should never underestimate the powers of reaction."
New York suffers what might be the effects of innumerable 9/11s.
"Mad Men" gets all manner of undeserved attention. Yet I attend to it.
If Plato had known of mind meld, you can be sure he would have applied to be a Vulcan.
It's notable and heartening when informed critical opinion manages to stop a juggernaut in its tracks.
I don't understand why the ICA has made the mistake of allotting a one man show to Barry McGee.
What is Harvard Square today but a shopping spree waiting to happen, a student lounge, a food court? What could a novel gain by being set in that venue?
Part of what made "The Dream Merchant" so compelling, and at times, harrowing, a read for me are its themes: love, loss, rags and riches, to be sure, but also the theme of aging, and associa…
