So, I’ll start: my name is Owen Hatherley, and not only was I a teenage Manics fan, I am a Manics fan. Read on: T. J. Clarke, ...

A curmudgeonly teacher finds a renewed zest for life after rescuing a penguin in this new film from 'The Full Monty' helmer Peter Cattaneo. By Frank Scheck There are two things that can make any ...

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Four historical books about the Tudor court offer insight into what really happened. In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of ...

This is all the more astonishing given that the war engulfed a whole generation of French intellectuals in ferocious debate in Paris and Algiers, blowing apart the friendship between Jean-Paul Sartre ...

“The Penguin Lessons” is a throwback to roughly thirty years ... the military takeover of Argentina and suffers for it (apparently this is not in the book). To avoid specifics, let’s say that the ...