Bound but Determined
In “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” Lisa See creates a convincing memoir of an intimate friendship between two women, Lily and Snow Flower, raised …
In “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” Lisa See creates a convincing memoir of an intimate friendship between two women, Lily and Snow Flower, raised …
With “Inside Man,” Spike Lee successfully makes the transition from “black film director” to simply “film director,” creating a tense and entertain- ing bank robbery …
For those of us who are committed to limited government, the Bush administration has been a major disappointment. It isn’t just the huge deficits or …
David Boaz praises “V for Vendetta” on his blog (March 29, 2006), say- ing, “the movie deals with”some classic libertarian themes: the rapaciousness of the …
In late 2001 Fox launched a new series called “24,” a daring experiment that became its biggest dramatic hit. The concept was intriguing: each episode …
James Surowiecki, who writes a column on finance for the New Yorker, has put together an engaging, well-documented book revealing the fact that decisions made …
At the 2006 Academy Awards presentation on March 5, the audience witnessed a shocking event, one that I thought could never happen: Three 6 Mafia, …
Margaret Schabas, a professor at the University of British Columbia, is a historian of the philosophy of science who has previously written on the mathematization …
A century before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, an earthquake measuring around 8.0 and lasting more than a full minute smashed into the city …
Pietra Rivoli, associate professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, got the idea for this book when a crowd of raucous students invaded the …