Thomas Mann's presaging of cultural laziness and war to come is still stinging.
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Promised land
Political promise has two sides. Barack Obama speaks to the second.
Die Hard
One thing no one says about this movie: It's an accomplished farce.
The Fugitive
Great cat-and-mouse between TLJ and Harrison Ford — the little titans.
What we do
Chiara is sick with something she caught in America.
Snow
Did I know the song "When a Man Loves a Woman"? Corinne wanted to know.
Room to move
D.H. Lawrence’s vivid Sardinian travelogue of the 1920s stirs a trip of its own.
The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Olga Grushin controls reality, and Russia of the late 80s, in this remarkable first novel.
In the Heat of the Night
Steiger and Poitier make Jewison's southern saga more than all right.
Varieties of Disturbance
Lydia Davis' stories include Kafka cooking dinner for himself. Enough said.
Why We Fight
Too much dogmatism in Eugene Jarecki's slickly-constructed anti-war documentary.
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee supercharges the sex but fails to make a credible movie.