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‘The Northeast Corridor’ Review: Keeping a Region on Track
The Wall Street Journal· 6 hours agoThe railroad line that runs from Boston through Providence, R.I., New Haven, Conn., New York,...
‘Buster’ Review: City Dog Seeks Roommate
The Wall Street Journal· 9 hours agoThe crime writer George Pelecanos leapfrogs these ontological quibbles in “Buster: A Dog,” a novella narrated by the title character, a handsome,...
‘A Light in the Darkness’ Review: The Song of Joaquín Rodrigo
The Wall Street Journal· 7 hours agoThough seductive and beautiful in itself, the composer’s work reached new listeners with the help of...
Politics: ‘The Rural Voter’ and ‘The Civic Bargain’
The Wall Street Journal· 7 hours agoA glance at the index of Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea’s “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America” indicates that...
‘On the Couch’ Review: A Close Reading of Freud
The Wall Street Journal· 7 hours agoIn his “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis” (1916-17), Sigmund Freud brought the sad news that humanity has had “to endure from the hand of science...
‘Fighting the Night’ Review: A Pilot Over Iwo Jima
The Wall Street Journal· 7 hours agoSuch is the case for Paul Hendrickson’s “Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer’s Life,” a beautifully written exploration of his...
Delicious in Dungeon: Is the Manga Finished? & Where To Read Online
COMINGSOON.net via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFans of the Delicious in Dungeon anime might be curious to know about where they can read the manga...
‘Dogland’ Review: The Battle of Beauty and Breed
The Wall Street Journal· 9 hours agoThe world of show dogs and dog shows teems with crackpots, making it ripe for parodies like Christopher Guest’s 2000 mockumentary, “Best in Show.” In...
‘Walker Percy’ Review: Writing for Redemption
The Wall Street Journal· 8 hours agoIt is difficult to confront the work of the novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990) without first taking in the tragedies with which his early life was marked....
Fiction: ‘Long Island’ by Colm Tóibín
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoIn Colm Tóibín’s indelibly moving 2009 novel, “Brooklyn,” set in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey emigrates from her economically depressed Irish town of...
