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Cross-Cultural
‘The Hurt Locker’ and the endless war
BY: Robert Zaller
03.09.2010
Chile: Left wing and right, together
BY: Steve Cohen
03.06.2010
On hating Haiti
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
02.27.2010
The Bad News/The Good News (poem)
BY: Lynn Hoffman
02.27.2010
When poets get drunk
BY: Lynn Hoffman
02.19.2010
Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis,’ restored
BY: Andrew Mangravite
02.13.2010
In defense of Jane Austen’s prose
BY: Alaina Mabaso
02.06.2010
The making of an activist, 1960 (memoir)
BY: Reed Stevens
01.30.2010
Iceland’s lesson for Americans
BY: Josette Bonafino
01.30.2010
Jane Austen novels on DVD
BY: Robert J. Murphy
01.30.2010
Howard Zinn and Mary Daly: Up the academy
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
01.30.2010
Salinger’s ‘Catcher,’ then and now
BY: John L. Erlich
01.30.2010
Jig for my father (poem)
BY: Lynn Hoffman
01.26.2010
How we misjudged Obama
BY: Steve Cohen
01.26.2010
Is the English major dying out?
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
01.23.2010
Bar mitzvah boy (a memoir)
BY: Bob Levin
01.23.2010
Winter getaway: Peru
BY: Toby Zinman
01.23.2010
Mark McGwire’s steroid confession
BY: Robert Zaller
01.14.2010
‘The Truth About Love’ (poem)
BY: Lynn Hoffman
01.12.2010
Airport security nightmare
BY: Reed Stevens
01.09.2010
The poet who drowned in a quandary
BY: Lynn Hoffman
01.02.2010
You’ve got mail, 1961 (Memoir)
BY: Bob Levin
01.02.2010
Patti Smith’s punk purity
BY: Bob Ingram
01.02.2010
Peggy Amsterdam’s halo effect
BY: SaraKay Smullens
12.28.2009
An agnostic reconsiders Jesus
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
12.26.2009
A GI Christmas carol (memoir)
BY: Bob Ingram
12.19.2009
Aunt Millie’s legacy
BY: Jackie Atkins
12.14.2009
Malcolm Wells: Nature’s architect
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
12.12.2009
The making of a terrorist, 1984
BY: Joy Tomme
12.08.2009
How to save the Mummers Parade
BY: Franklin Roberts
12.01.2009
The trouble with government arts grants
BY: J.T. Barbarese
12.01.2009
A cell phone adventure
BY: Reed Stevens
11.28.2009
Help me make it through the night
BY: J.T. Barbarese
11.24.2009
Why I despise the Eagles
BY: Bob Ingram
11.21.2009
The Pew Fellowships go top-down
BY: Jonathan M. Stein
11.14.2009
My health care Catch-22
BY: Reed Stevens
11.14.2009
Antiquity, looters and the Penn Museum
BY: Richard Carreño
11.10.2009
Berlin’s lesson in peaceful revolution
BY: Matthew Jakubowski
11.10.2009
Aftermath of an accident
BY: Amy Small-McKinney
11.10.2009
Peggy Maley: Hollywood castoff
BY: Bob Levin
11.07.2009
My great-grandmother grows younger
BY: Reed Stevens
11.07.2009
Memory, loss, and the ‘50 Phillies
BY: Bob Levin
11.02.2009
The winning basket (a memoir)
BY: John L. Erlich
10.31.2009
The Phillies and my father: A memoir
BY: Marge Murray
10.31.2009
Behind the Bicentennial, Part 3: Keep it simple
BY: Franklin Roberts
10.26.2009
’50s films that stoked the ‘60s
BY: Bob Levin
10.26.2009
The spy who snatched Baryshnikov
BY: Franklin Roberts
10.26.2009
Mischief Night follies: A memoir
BY: Bob Ingram
10.25.2009
Two novels that changed my life
BY: Bob Levin
10.13.2009
Mystic Seaport: Is recreated history authentic?
BY: Andrew Mangravite
10.13.2009
How newspapers will survive
BY: Tom Purdom
10.13.2009
Obama’s basketball coolness
BY: Robert Liss
10.04.2009
The Gosselins: An American travesty
BY: Jackie Atkins
09.22.2009
Financial ingenuity in hard times
BY: Gerald Weales
09.22.2009
My grandfather’s long voyage home
BY: Bob Ingram
09.15.2009
Puddles: A Philadelphia memoir (c. 1950)
BY: Bob Levin
09.15.2009
‘You lie!’ and the art of insult
BY: Rick Soisson
09.14.2009
The playground basketball cure
BY: John L. Erlich
09.06.2009
Writers and publishers in the electronic age
BY: Tom Purdom
09.06.2009
One August day in the park
BY: John L. Erlich
09.01.2009
Behind the Bicentennial, Part 2: The Germans
BY: Franklin Roberts
08.29.2009
Psychology and the stock market
BY: Michael Woods
08.29.2009
Why Ted Kennedy was special
BY: John L. Erlich
08.29.2009
Behind the Bicentennial: A memoir (Part 1)
BY: Franklin Roberts
08.25.2009
In Woodstock’s wake: a 1970 memoir
BY: John L. Erlich
08.25.2009
A shipboard casino for Philadelphia
BY: Merilyn Jackson
08.25.2009
Yale and those Muhammad cartoons
BY: Matthew Jakubowski
08.21.2009
Death and the boxer
BY: Bob Ingram
08.21.2009
Becoming a writer, c. 1964 (Part 4)
BY: Bob Levin
08.15.2009
A writer and her audience
BY: Reed Stevens
08.15.2009
Basketball: The real thing
BY: John L. Erlich
08.11.2009
How I became a writer, c. 1962 (Part 3)
BY: Bob Levin
08.09.2009
The Czech Republic on foot
BY: Toby Zinman
08.02.2009
World Team Tennis: Antidote for sports violence
BY: Steve Cohen
07.28.2009
A few kind words for ‘genre’ films
BY: Andrew Mangravite
07.25.2009
How I became a writer, c. 1961 (Part 2)
BY: Bob Levin
07.21.2009
My personal Bad Cop Film Festival
BY: Bob Ingram
07.21.2009
What Hollywood could learn from 1939
BY: Armen Pandola
07.20.2009
How the world works (Philadelphia, 1961)
BY: Bob Levin
07.07.2009
On being a Twit
BY: Rick Soisson
06.25.2009
How I became a writer: a 1960 memoir (Part 1)
BY: Bob Levin
05.30.2009
One woman’s quest for peace and quiet
BY: Reed Stevens
05.30.2009
Down with minimalist design!
BY: Caroline Dunlop Millett
05.30.2009
A summer construction job, 1959
BY: Bob Levin
05.24.2009
Wine on-line (Part 2): A quick shoppers’ course
BY: Lynn Hoffman
05.24.2009
Urban oasis: The Lombard Swim Club
BY: Jackie Atkins
05.19.2009
Hanging out in the ’50s
BY: Bob Levin
05.09.2009
Growing up at the Palestra, 1958
BY: Bob Levin
05.05.2009
Shopping for wine on line (Part 1)
BY: Lynn Hoffman
05.05.2009
Our not-so-golden years
BY: Reed Stevens
04.25.2009
Steak sandwiches B.C. (before cheese)
BY: Bob Levin
04.25.2009
Pro athletes: Warriors, or jerks?
BY: Bob Ingram
04.24.2009
Searching for meaning in ‘March Madness’
BY: Robert Liss
04.11.2009
Proposal: A pavilion for the Parkway
BY: Lynn Denton
04.04.2009
In search of great bread
BY: Merilyn Jackson
04.04.2009
Venice: Nice place to visit, but….
BY: Richard Carreño
03.31.2009
Casinos and the Barnes: Perfect together
BY: Robert Zaller
03.31.2009
Shooting Three Mile Island
BY: Reed Stevens
03.30.2009
The arts in crisis: Whose fault?
BY: Victoria Skelly
03.23.2009
Oppenheimer and the ‘guilt-ridden scientist’ myth
BY: Mark Wolverton
03.17.2009
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
Jason Reitman’s ‘Up in the Air’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
02.22.2010
James Ellroy’s ‘Blood’s A Rover’
BY: Bob Ingram
01.30.2010
‘Avatar’ vs. ‘The Imaginarium’
BY: Judy Weightman
01.16.2010
David Owen’s ‘Green Metropolis’
BY: Tom Purdom
01.05.2010
‘A New Literary History of America’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
01.02.2010
‘Fly By Wire’ and that ‘miracle’ on the Hudson
BY: Mark Wolverton
12.22.2009
Clint Eastwood’s ‘Invictus’
BY: Robert Zaller
12.19.2009
Jason Reitman’s ‘Up In the Air’ (1st review)
BY: Judy Weightman
12.04.2009
‘Book of Basketball’ by Bill Simmons
BY: Robert Liss
12.04.2009
David Thomson’s ‘Moment of Psycho’
BY: Andrew Mangravite
12.04.2009
‘Precious’: Ghetto fantasy film
BY: Robert Zaller
11.23.2009
Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
10.25.2009
Reif Larsen’s ‘Selected Works of T.S. Spivet’
BY: Judy Weightman
10.19.2009
Soderbergh’s ‘The Informant!’
BY: Mark Wolverton
10.18.2009
Fringe/LiveArts Festival post-mortem
BY: Julius Ferraro
10.06.2009
Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ (1st review)
BY: Adam Lippe
09.29.2009
Roald Dahl’s adult stories
BY: Rick Soisson
09.24.2009
On the fringe of the Fringe Festival
BY: Janet Anderson
09.21.2009
Solnit’s ‘Paradise Built in Hell’
BY: Matthew Jakubowski
09.15.2009
Sharon White’s ‘Vanished Gardens’
BY: Judy Weightman
08.25.2009
Bartusiak’s ‘The Day We Found the Universe’
BY: Tom Purdom
08.25.2009
Christian Petzold’s ‘Jerichow’
BY: Robert Zaller
08.18.2009
‘Napoléon’ at the National Constitution Center
BY: Dan Rottenberg
08.13.2009
James Herrick’s ‘Scientific Mythologies’
BY: Mitchell Gordon
08.04.2009
‘Bruno’ and male neuroses
BY: Anne R. Fabbri
08.04.2009
Gay men and their diva role models
BY: Marge Murray
08.04.2009
Majidi’s ‘Song of Sparrows’
BY: Brett S. Harrison
08.02.2009
Martin Provost’s ‘Séraphine’ at the Ritz Five
BY: Judy Weightman
08.02.2009
Michael Mann’s ‘Public Enemies’
BY: Mark Wolverton
07.14.2009
‘Hidden City Philadelphia’ (3rd review)
BY: Jonathan M. Stein
07.11.2009
Hidden City Philadelphia (2nd review)
BY: AJ Sabatini
06.29.2009
James Toback’s ‘Tyson’
BY: Bob Ingram
06.15.2009
‘Frost/Nixon’ on DVD
BY: Mark Wolverton
06.14.2009
Ringling Brothers Circus at the Spectrum
BY: Steve Cohen
05.24.2009
‘Wallander’: Swedish noir on PBS
BY: Marge Murray
05.14.2009
Roberto Bolaño’s ‘2666’
BY: Bob Ingram
05.09.2009
FDR’s Hundred Days: Two books
BY: Steve Cohen
04.24.2009
Public TV explains the Crash of ‘08
BY: Robert Zaller
02.20.2009
‘Slumdog Millionaire’
BY: Beeri Moalem
02.03.2009
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’
BY: F. Lennox Campello
01.27.2009
Clint Eastwood: Mellowing archetype
BY: Robert Zaller
01.19.2009
Fuji: Philadelphia’s best restaurant?
BY: Lynn Hoffman
12.27.2008
‘Frost/Nixon’ at the Ritz 5.
BY: Robert Zaller
12.16.2008
Félix Fénéon Teaches You How To Write
BY: Andrew Mangravite
12.14.2008
Oliver Stone’s ‘W’
BY: Robert Zaller
11.26.2008
Philip Roth’s ‘Indignation’
BY: Ted K. Hechtman
11.08.2008
Pre-fab dwellings at MOMA in New York
BY: Caroline Dunlop Millett
10.07.2008
André Breton’s ‘Martinique’
BY: Andrew Mangravite
09.02.2008
Fringe’s New Deal walking tour
BY: Steve Cohen
09.02.2008
Woody Allen’s ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’
BY: Robert Zaller
08.26.2008
Herzog’s ‘Encounters at the End of the World’
BY: Robert Zaller
08.16.2008
Mayakovsky and the Russian soul
BY: Andrew Mangravite
08.12.2008
China’s ‘humiliation,’ reconsidered
BY: Reed Stevens
08.09.2008
‘The Soloist,’ by Steve Lopez
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
08.05.2008
Jim Thompson’s ‘Golden Gizmo’
BY: Rick Soisson
08.02.2008
Gastropubs: Five small wonders
BY: Lynn Hoffman
05.27.2008
Pretensions of ‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster’
BY: Tom Purdom
05.25.2008
‘My Father’s Game,’ by Rick Wilber
BY: Robert Zaller
04.19.2008
Dining bargains
BY: Lynn Hoffman
04.12.2008
Philadelphia Flower Show
BY: Beeri Moalem
04.08.2008
‘There Will Be Blood’
BY: Andrew Mangravite
01.15.2008
‘Charlie Wilson’s War’
BY: Richard Chaitt
12.25.2007
Jason Reitman’s ‘Juno’
BY: Richard Chaitt
12.04.2007
Three new neo-noir films
BY: Robert Zaller
11.27.2007
‘Undaunted: Five American Explorers’
BY: Lesley Valdes
11.13.2007
Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’
BY: Robert Zaller
08.18.2007
‘La Vie en Rose’ (second review)
BY: Richard Chaitt
08.04.2007
I feel bad about Nora Ephron
BY: Joy Tomme
07.14.2007
Witold Rybczynski’s ‘Last Harvest’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
05.15.2007
‘70s revisited: ‘Hoax’ and ‘Zodiac’
BY: Robert Zaller
04.17.2007
Pete Dexter’s ‘Paper Trails’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
04.17.2007
‘How To Talk About Books’
BY: Leonard Boasberg
03.03.2007
Nader Redux: ‘An Unreasonable Man’
BY: Robert Zaller
02.13.2007
‘Tut and the Golden Age’ at Franklin Institute
BY: Robert Zaller
02.06.2007
Constitution Center’s ‘9/11: A Nation Remembers’
BY: Gresham Riley
09.26.2006
Laurent Cantet’s ‘Heading South’
BY: Robert Zaller
08.24.2006
Andrea Mitchell re-invents her past
BY: Dan Rottenberg
04.17.2006
The New World: Poisoning Paradise
BY: Robert Zaller
02.03.2006
Munich: Good idea, bad film
BY: Dan Rottenberg
01.09.2006
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