No doubt too much can be made out of Steve Jobs's tripped-out youth, but also, too little. Jobs himself said: "Definitely, taking LSD is one of the most important things in my life." He neve…
I had written director Martin Scorcese off, and never expected he had a "Hugo" in him. That he did is the among the touching things in this film.
"The Submission" has been compared to Richard Price's richly evocative novels of New York life. It's an apt comparison, though Amy Waldman brings a new cast of characters to bear, members of…
The Swedes, to be sure, came for first-hand footage about the Black Power movement. How they managed to forget about that footage for decades is a story only they can tell. But you feel, in …
Joshua Rubenstein's succinct account of Leon Trotsky's life rescues the Russian radical from a remoteness, positioning him at a useful distance for contemporary readers
Author Deborah Lipstadt's decision to confront a Holocaust denier in court prepared her, as little else might have, to appreciate and convey the vastly greater complexity and historical impo…