Category Archives: Reviews: Books, Movies, Music, TV

Joel and Ethan Coen, like Garrison Keillor, are an American treasure. I speak of them in the singular, as they are a single unit, writing and directing 16 films together over the past 30 years. Their body of work includes … Continue reading →

Unravelling the mystery of why Ashley died is really not the driving force in this novel. Rather, it is the intriguing on-again, off-again interplay among the odd little group of private investigators. Bogart, Bacall, and Lorre they are not. Continue reading →

This one’s a page-turner, while raising serious questions about America in the early 21st century, how we live and who actually controls things.
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Dave Eggers has consistently chosen somewhat off-the-beaten fields for his book length projects. See my review from August, 2013, of Hologram For The King, for a full summary of his oeuvre. In general, he juxtaposes ordinary, contemporary Americans with an … Continue reading →

The Panopticon: A Novel, by Jenni Fagan, arrived on our shores last July. Ms Fagan, a Scottish poet and mother of a toddler, provides a disturbing, yet ultimately optimistic debut novel. 4.5/5 stars Continue reading →

one of the best films I’ve seen in the last year. 4.5/5 Continue reading →

Searching through the North Atlantic for “hard ice”, a Big Science team has found a man encased in ice. But this is no hapless sailor or prehistoric seal hunter. Rather it was Judge Jeremiah Rice, 38, who fell overboard while accompanying a daring exploratory journey out of the old sailing haunts just north of Boston. Continue reading →

This week, I finished a book and movie, which both explore a well-trod path, encounters between the Atlantic and the Orient. England and the US have ruled the world for the better part of four centuries. Throughout that time, we’ve … Continue reading →