The Last American Philosopher?
By Stephen Metcalf | May 20, 2008 | 9:40 am
Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher, By Neil Gross; University of Chicago Press, 367 pages... MORE >
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A Royal Appetite for Books
By Stephen Metcalf | October 9, 2007 | 12:30 pm
The delights of Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader begin with its title, a gentle but deft play on words, and flow forth in easeful perfection for the 120 pages that follow.... MORE >
Tricky, Abstruse Questions Fielded by Frayn the Brain
By Stephen Metcalf | February 11, 2007 | 7:00 pm
The world is a scrim, left blank for the tints and whorls of the ego.... MORE >
The Last Gasp of the 1950's, In Trashy, Sexy Cinemascope
By Stephen Metcalf | May 15, 2005 | 8:00 pm
Thanks to the auteur theory, instead of a lot of antiquated factory product and the studio P.... MORE >
Upmarket, Tastefully Dirty And Deeply Uninvolving
By Stephen Metcalf | April 3, 2005 | 8:00 pm
God having lavished so much on the exterior, Natalie Portman doesn't deserve an inner life.... MORE >
Arrogant Bastard's Contempt Enlivens Waspish Melodrama
By Stephen Metcalf | March 20, 2005 | 7:00 pm
Darryl Zanuck loved the story but hated the choice of writer-director-an "arrogant bastard" with "fo... MORE >
Self-Help Prescription: A Double Dose of Culture
By Stephen Metcalf | June 6, 2004 | 8:00 pm
Status Anxiety, by Alain de Botton. Pantheon, 306 pages... MORE >
A Quietly Remarkable Memoir Walks a Beat From H.U. to NYPD
By Stephen Metcalf | May 2, 2004 | 8:00 pm
BlueBlood , by Edward Conlon. Riverhead, 562 pages, $26.95. ... MORE >
Wading Into the Aural Tide: Pop and the Examined Life
By Stephen Metcalf | March 7, 2004 | 7:00 pm
Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life, by Geoffrey O'Brien.... MORE >
A City's Shining Moment Helps Shape Our Heritag
By Stephen Metcalf | November 23, 2003 | 7:00 pm
Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind , by James Buchan.... MORE >
What's Going On in the Bedroom? Don't Freak Ma-It's Obscurity Rock
By Stephen Metcalf | November 23, 2003 | 7:00 pm
What is it about Felt?... MORE >
The Shame of No Shame: Fawning, Sniping in Media Land
By Stephen Metcalf | October 26, 2003 | 7:00 pm
Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Mes... MORE >
Where Did All the Money Go? Two Versions of One Sad Story
By Stephen Metcalf | October 12, 2003 | 8:00 pm
The Roaring Nineties , by Joseph E. Stiglitz. W.W. Norton, 256 pages, $25.95.... MORE >
Semi-Impenitent Communist, Magnanimous to the Last
By Stephen Metcalf | August 24, 2003 | 8:00 pm
Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life, by Eric Hobsbawm.... MORE >
Black Market Bonanzas Exposed-A Secret History of Our Times
By Stephen Metcalf | May 11, 2003 | 8:00 pm
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market , by Eric Schlosser.... MORE >
