Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Review: That First Season, by John Eisenberg
Joseph Kellard May 20, 2010
Joseph Kellard reviews That First Season, by John Eisenberg.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Review of Dae Jang Geum
Sarah Biddle May 20, 2010
Reviews the Korean television series Dae Jang Geum, whose “breathtaking cinematography, beautiful costumes, mouthwatering food, and rich soundtrack integrate with [a] profound story to create a superlative work of art.”
Arts & Culture, Science & Technology
Dr. Hendricks from Atlas Shrugged on Socialized Health Care
Craig Biddle March 22, 2010
"Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is…
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Review: The Sparrowhawk Series, by Edward Cline
Dina Schein Federman February 20, 2010
Dina Schein Federman reviews The Sparrowhawk Series, by Edward Cline.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Review: Fred Astaire, by Joseph Epstein
Scott Holleran August 20, 2009
Scott Holleran reviews Fred Astaire, by Joseph Epstein.
Arts & Culture, Good Living
Doubt vs. Certainty
Veronica Ryan February 20, 2009
Casts certainty on why the movie Doubt is leaving viewers wondering whether they can know anything for sure.
Arts & Culture
The Exalted Heroism of Alistair MacLean's Novels
Andrew Bernstein February 20, 2008
Surveys MacLean’s major works (including The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare); indicates their value to readers who love men of intelligence, ability, and courage; and incites a keyboard stampede to Amazon.com for the used copies of MacLean’s books, which are tragically out of print.
Arts & Culture
Caspar David Friedrich and Visual Romanticism
Tore Boeckmann February 20, 2008
Examines four paintings by Friedrich (plus one by Theodor Kittelsen), analyzes them by means of a new concept Mr. Boeckmann calls design-theme, and integrates them under the concept of “visual romanticism,” thus going a distance toward objectively defining that school. (The article is accompanied by five color images of the paintings discussed.)
Arts & Culture
How to Analyze and Appreciate Paintings
Dianne Durante August 20, 2007
Provides a step-by-step method for viewing, assessing, and enjoying this rich visual medium. The article is accompanied by fifteen images of the paintings discussed, some of which are a feast, others of which are a foil.
Arts & Culture, Ayn Rand & Objectivism
Transfiguring the Novel: The Literary Revolution in Atlas Shrugged
Andrew Bernstein August 20, 2007
Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Ayn Rand's magnum opus (which was published on October 10, 1957) by examining key aspects of the book's artistic elements. Focusing on Rand's dramatization of the plot-theme, her use of literary techniques, and the nature and significance of key figures in the story, Bernstein shows how Rand employed such elements to tap the full potential of this supremely conceptual art form and thus to create a thoroughly integrated novel.