Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors, Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior
The pope failed to take decisive action in response to clear evidence of a criminal underground in the priesthood.
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Rosa Luxemburg wanted it all: books and music, sex and art, evening walks and the revolution. Her lover, Leo Jogiches, told her this was nonsense.
As Tom Segev’s biography makes clear, in the entire pantheon of Jewish superheroes there is no more unlikely figure than Simon Wiesenthal.
President Obama, let Egypt be a primer on how to judge the power that can be wielded by mass protest. It might prepare you better for the next round of political upheavals.
If the world has a heart, it beats now for Egypt.
Nicole Krauss's Great House swings from the evocative to the overcharged.
The 4,500 images in the recently discovered Mexican Suitcase deepen our understanding of photojournalism as well as the complexities of the Spanish Civil War.
Drollery, mordancy, tenderness and soul talk: Saul Bellow's letters are a Saul Bellow novel!


