I was perusing my posts from the last year, trying to decide if I
really feel like making a "best of" list this year and being hard on
myself for all the books I didn't read a...
BY JOHN M. WHALEN
“He Ran All the Way” (1951) was forties’ tough guy John
Garfield’s last cinematic performance. It’s a taut, tense,
claustrophobic drama about Ni...
"Be quiet! Don't cry! Shhh."
I cried my way through Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life. Critics
have called it "exquisite,"
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