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Cross-Cultural
My heart attack, Part 6: Coming out of surgery
BY: Bob Levin
05.19.2012
Carlos Fuentes as I remember him
BY: AJ Sabatini
05.19.2012
Child abuse and bureaucracy: Another Philadelphia story
BY: Sarakay Smullens
05.15.2012
Another Titanic night to remember
BY: AJ Sabatini
04.13.2012
Heart attack, Part 5: Surgery approaches
BY: Bob Levin
04.10.2012
Trayvon Martin: Rush to judgment? (2nd comment)
BY: Robert Zaller
04.01.2012
Death and life of a friend
BY: Maralyn Lois Polak
04.01.2012
Trayvon Martin: Reactions, black vs. white (1st comment)
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
03.31.2012
Lee Benson: The historian as activist
BY: Marshall A. Ledger
03.24.2012
Claude Lanzmann at the Free Library
BY: Robert Zaller
03.24.2012
Education and ‘The Wild Bunch’
BY: Andrew Mangravite
03.20.2012
Heart attack, Part 4: The prospect of surgery
BY: Bob Levin
03.11.2012
China’s surprise Pritzker winner
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
03.06.2012
Prostate cancer and radioactive love
BY: Maralyn Lois Polak
02.28.2012
On Whitney Houston and drug addiction
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
02.21.2012
In defense of Janet Malcolm (Part II)
BY: Bob Levin
02.14.2012
The ultimate rejection: Failing to make a minyan
BY: Brett S. Harrison
02.14.2012
My wild adventures in poetry
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
02.12.2012
Heart attack, Part 3: A survivor’s tale
BY: Bob Levin
02.12.2012
‘Inventing Our Lives’ and the kibbutz movement
BY: Jake Blumgart
02.07.2012
A belated Valentine to the body
BY: Maralyn Lois Polak
02.07.2012
The true nature of economic growth
BY: Tom Purdom
02.07.2012
Architecture: Five cents’ worth
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
01.28.2012
Newt’s open marriage, and mine
BY: Maralyn Lois Polak
01.24.2012
Gingrich: The wrong question
BY: Steve Cohen
01.21.2012
‘War Horse’: Animals as friends
BY: John L. Erlich
01.17.2012
The kid’s first challenge: A boxing memoir
BY: Bob Ingram
01.14.2012
In defense of Janet Malcolm (Part i)
BY: Bob Levin
01.10.2012
Lessons of a back yard
BY: J.T. Barbarese
01.03.2012
Who needs Christmas letters?
BY: Tom Purdom
12.27.2011
My locker room buddy, Kim Jong-il
BY: Jim Rutter
12.20.2011
A few not unkind words about Kim Jong-il
BY: Maralyn Lois Polak
12.20.2011
Christopher Hitchens, right or wrong
BY: Robert Zaller
12.17.2011
My passion for boxing, R.I.P.
BY: Bob Levin
12.17.2011
On worshipping Steve Jobs
BY: Robert Zaller
12.13.2011
Beyond the Penn State scandal
BY: John L. Erlich
12.10.2011
When a mother vanishes
BY: Bob Levin
12.06.2011
In defense of Joe Paterno
BY: Leonard Boasberg
11.29.2011
The thrill of falconry
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
11.28.2011
The Inquirer’s new home
BY: Jackie Atkins
11.21.2011
America through a Spanish lens
BY: Marshall A. Ledger
11.13.2011
Joe Paterno and Penn State’s scandal
BY: Bob Ingram
11.08.2011
The Madoff creep show
BY: Bob Ingram
11.01.2011
Healing and history
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
10.23.2011
My ‘Time,’ ‘Life’ and ‘Fortune’ in Luceland
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
10.11.2011
You too can appear on a postage stamp
BY: Perry Block
10.02.2011
Capital punishment as an oxymoron
BY: Robert Zaller
09.27.2011
September Surf Song
BY: Bob Ingram
09.25.2011
‘The Help’ and ‘The Debt’: Jessica Chastain’s moment
BY: Reed Stevens
09.10.2011
The 9/11 Anniversary: Enough already
BY: Robert Zaller
09.10.2011
How to respond to tyrants?
BY: Robert Zaller
08.27.2011
The Zen of getting canned
BY: Robert P. Levin
08.19.2011
Poet Philip Levine’s working-class credentials
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
08.14.2011
Those Civil War re-enactments
BY: Jackie Atkins
08.14.2011
Kate Atkinson: crime fiction for grownups
BY: Bob Levin
08.14.2011
Eight questions about the Civil War
BY: John Dowlin
08.14.2011
Obama’s unproclaimed war
BY: Robert Zaller
08.09.2011
Heart attack, Part 2: Anatomy of a procedure
BY: Bob Levin
08.09.2011
Rape and SlutWalk: A therapist’s view
BY: SaraKay Smullens
08.06.2011
My pal, Rick Santorum
BY: Gerald Weales
08.06.2011
Congressional sex scandals: Do it yourself
BY: Perry Block
08.06.2011
Surviving on the fringe: Tips for arts groups
BY: Tom Purdom
08.02.2011
Capitalism’s rolling crisis
BY: Robert Zaller
07.30.2011
Why you shouldn’t quit your job
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
07.26.2011
Conservatives, liberals and socialized booze
BY: Marshall A. Ledger
07.23.2011
Michele Bachmann’s migraines
BY: Joy Tomme
07.23.2011
A lesson from the Women’s World Cup
BY: Tom Purdom
07.19.2011
Miracle on the Boardwalk
BY: Bob Ingram
07.16.2011
Information packaging, Victorian style
BY: Andrew Mangravite
07.10.2011
What messages do today’s women send?
BY: Margaret Chew Barringer
07.09.2011
Antidote for sex addicts: chocolate
BY: Perry Block
07.05.2011
Greece’s fiscal crisis— and ours
BY: Robert Zaller
07.05.2011
Sex abuse: How to respond to Dan Rottenberg
BY: Madeline Schaefer
06.28.2011
Rethinking America’s priorities
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
06.28.2011
What’s cancer really like?
BY: Robert P. Levin
06.28.2011
Hitler’s ultimate irony
BY: Natalie Davis
06.28.2011
Why did Anthony Weiner resign?
BY: Robert Zaller
06.21.2011
‘Seeing Gertrude Stein’ in San Francisco
BY: Reed Stevens
06.21.2011
A baby boomer looks at tattoos
BY: Perry Block
06.16.2011
Love song of an aging hippie
BY: Bob Ingram
06.08.2011
Male sex abuse and the silence of women
BY: SaraKay Smullens
05.30.2011
Priestly sex abuse: Blaming the hippies
BY: Merilyn Jackson
05.21.2011
The Orchestra, the Barnes and the courts
BY: Robert Zaller
05.14.2011
Bin Laden and Petraeus: Two birds with one stone
BY: Robert Zaller
05.09.2011
Symbols, from bin Laden to the royal wedding
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
05.06.2011
Secrets of Cecily Tynan, weather queen
BY: Perry Block
04.30.2011
School budget cuts: A view from the front lines
BY: Candy Kean
04.29.2011
Paris, Philadelphia and the Barnes
BY: Robert Zaller
04.16.2011
Basketball: Reflections on the Final Four
BY: Robert Liss
04.10.2011
Paris in Philadelphia? OK, but why?
BY: Marshall A. Ledger
04.09.2011
Reflections on culture and gastronomy
BY: Lynn Hoffman
04.09.2011
Pastor Jones, the Koran, and the rest of us
BY: Robert Zaller
04.05.2011
Japanese grace vs. American looting
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
03.29.2011
Elizabeth Taylor’s ultimate lesson
BY: SaraKay Smullens
03.29.2011
Lessons from Japan’s earthquake
BY: Benjamin B. Olshin
03.22.2011
In Memoriam: The poet John Haines
BY: Robert Zaller
03.19.2011
A man’s guide to aging gracefully
BY: Perry Block
03.12.2011
The war on education
BY: Robert Zaller
03.12.2011
My heart attack, Part 1: a first-person account
BY: Bob Levin
03.07.2011
Open letter to film producer Jeffrey Lurie
BY: Maralyn Lois Polak
03.05.2011
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
Lost Soviet classic: Klimov’s ‘Agony’
BY: Robert Zaller
05.15.2012
Three noir novels by Manchette
BY: Andrew Mangravite
05.08.2012
Joseph Cedar’s ‘Footnote’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
05.05.2012
‘Martha Marcy’ and the truth about cults
BY: Judy Weightman
05.01.2012
Drew Goddard’s ‘Cabin in the Woods’
BY: Jake Blumgart
04.24.2012
Joseph Cedar’s ‘Footnote’ (1st review)
BY: AJ Sabatini
04.24.2012
J. M. Ledgard’s ‘Submergence’
BY: Robert Zaller
04.21.2012
Agnieszka Holland’s ‘In Darkness’
BY: Robert Zaller
04.17.2012
‘The Clinton Years’ on Public TV
BY: Robert Zaller
02.28.2012
‘Chronicle’ vs. Plato’s ‘Republic’
BY: Jim Rutter
02.25.2012
‘Take Shelter’ (2nd review)
BY: Judy Weightman
02.25.2012
‘The Grey’: Man against nature
BY: Jake Blumgart
02.14.2012
Phyllida Lloyd’s ‘The Iron Lady’
BY: Robert Zaller
01.31.2012
Sylvia Nasar’s ‘Grand Pursuit’
BY: Tom Purdom
01.24.2012
Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
01.24.2012
‘Townie,’ by Andre Dubus III
BY: Tom Purdom
01.17.2012
When Jews ruled basketball
BY: Steve Cohen
01.14.2012
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ (3rd review)
BY: Jake Blumgart
01.10.2012
Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
01.03.2012
Alfredson’s ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ (1st review)
BY: Judy Weightman
12.31.2011
J. C. Chandor’s ‘Margin Call’
BY: Robert Zaller
12.13.2011
Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ (1st review)
BY: Jake Blumgart
12.12.2011
Alexander Payne’s ‘The Descendants’
BY: Robert Zaller
12.10.2011
Paul Hendrickson’s Hemingway
BY: John Dowlin
11.29.2011
Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’
BY: Robert Zaller
11.29.2011
‘Boss’: Politics as usual
BY: Bob Ingram
11.21.2011
Roger Ebert’s ‘Life Itself’
BY: Reed Stevens
11.19.2011
‘Take Shelter’: Prophecy vs. lunacy (1st review)
BY: Robert Zaller
11.08.2011
‘Paranormal Activity 3’: What ghosts really want
BY: Alaina Mabaso
10.29.2011
George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ (2nd review)
BY: Judy Weightman
10.15.2011
George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ (1st review)
BY: Jake Blumgart
10.15.2011
Richard Burgin’s ‘Shadow Traffic’
BY: Robert Zaller
10.04.2011
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’
BY: Robert Zaller
10.01.2011
‘Moneyball’ and male values
BY: Madeline Schaefer
09.30.2011
‘Drive’: Beyond casual violence
BY: Jake Blumgart
09.20.2011
John Madden’s ‘The Debt’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
09.13.2011
‘What Alice Knew’: The hunt for Jack the Ripper
BY: Robert Zaller
09.10.2011
Dorothy Parker beneath the surface
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
09.10.2011
Rowan Joffé’s remake of ‘Brighton Rock’
BY: Jake Blumgart
09.10.2011
‘The Help’: Racism, or just plain meanness? (1st review)
BY: Alaina Mabaso
09.03.2011
David Goldblatt’s history of soccer
BY: Tom Purdom
08.27.2011
Michael McDonagh’s ‘The Guard’
BY: Jake Blumgart
08.16.2011
Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’
BY: Dan Rottenberg
07.11.2011
Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’
BY: Robert Zaller
06.28.2011
Redford’s ‘The Conspirator’
BY: Robert Zaller
05.17.2011
‘Slam Nation’s’ night of story telling
BY: Madeline Schaefer
05.03.2011
Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’
BY: Marshall A. Ledger
05.03.2011
‘Atlas Shrugged’ on film
BY: Jackie Atkins
04.30.2011
Patti Smith, ‘Just Kids’ and the ’60s
BY: Bob Ingram
04.19.2011
Cary Fukunaga’s ‘Jane Eyre’ on film (2nd review)
BY: Alaina Mabaso
04.16.2011
Cary Fukunaga’s ‘Jane Eyre’ on film (1st review)
BY: Madeline Schaefer
04.04.2011
‘Battle: Los Angeles’: War without complexity
BY: Alaina Mabaso
04.02.2011
Culinary rebel: mica in Chestnut Hill
BY: Lynn Hoffman
04.01.2011
Three centuries of diaries at the Morgan in New York
BY: Robert Zaller
03.29.2011
Houdini at the Jewish Museum in New York
BY: Robert Zaller
03.22.2011
Religious fanatics: Muslim vs. Christian
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
03.19.2011
How Paris transformed T.S. Eliot
BY: Richard da Silva
03.19.2011
‘Leonardo Da Vinci’s Workshop’ at Franklin Institute
BY: Marilyn MacGregor
02.19.2011
The poetic return of Theophile Gautier
BY: Andrew Mangravite
02.14.2011
‘The King’s Speech’ reconsidered
BY: Anne R. Fabbri
02.12.2011
‘Casino Jack’: Downfall of a lobbyist
BY: Robert Zaller
01.29.2011
The dark side of ‘Tiger’ parenting
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
01.16.2011
‘Worth Dying For’: The appeal of Jack Reacher
BY: Bob Ingram
01.15.2011
Punch-drunk in Hollywood: ‘The Fighter’
BY: Bob Ingram
01.08.2011
Fareed Zakaria’s ‘Post-American World’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
01.02.2011
‘Phillies’: The ultimate coffee-table book
BY: Steve Cohen
12.28.2010
‘True Grit’ gets a remake
BY: Reed Stevens
12.28.2010
‘At the Fights’: Writers on boxing
BY: Bob Ingram
12.19.2010
Mark Garvey’s ‘Stylized’: Admiration or adoration?
BY: Judy Weightman
11.30.2010
Tony Goldwyn’s ‘Conviction’ and the death penalty
BY: Robert Zaller
11.20.2010
Herbert Gans imagines America in 2033
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
11.06.2010
Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’
BY: Robert Zaller
11.02.2010
Peter Conn’s ‘The American 1930s’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
10.16.2010
‘Cleopatra’ at the Franklin Institute
BY: Judy Weightman
10.16.2010
Fringe festival wrapup
BY: Janet Anderson
09.26.2010
Aaron Schneider’s ‘Get Low’
BY: Robert Zaller
09.21.2010
Clint Eastwood’s ‘Invictus’ (2nd review)
BY: Tom Purdom
09.19.2010
Richard Burgin’s ‘Rivers Last Longer’
BY: Robert Zaller
09.07.2010
Dennis Tafoya’s ‘Wolves of Fairmount Park’
BY: Bob Ingram
08.20.2010
‘Matterhorn,’ a Vietnam novel by Karl Marlantes
BY: John L. Erlich
08.13.2010
Laura Bennett’s ‘Didn’t I Feed You Yesterday?’
BY: Jennifer Baldino Bonett
07.07.2010
Michael Douglas as the ‘Solitary Man’
BY: Robert Zaller
07.03.2010
Stieg Larsson’s not-so-radical thrillers (2nd comment)
BY: Tom Purdom
07.03.2010
‘Sex and the City 2’
BY: Jennifer Baldino Bonett
06.01.2010
Ben Yagoda’s ‘Memoir: A History’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
06.01.2010
Stieg Larsson’s Swedish feminist heroine (1st comment)
BY: Marge Murray
05.25.2010
Stephen Miller’s ‘Conversation’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
05.11.2010
‘Vincere’ and the pitfalls of passion
BY: Dan Rottenberg
04.27.2010
The trouble with Frank Lloyd Wright
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
04.06.2010
Atom Egoyan’s ‘Chloe’
BY: Robert Zaller
04.06.2010
Dickstein’s ‘Dancing In the Dark’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
03.30.2010
‘The Ghost Writer’: Polanski’s revenge
BY: Robert Zaller
03.23.2010
‘Crazy Heart’ vs. ‘The Wrestler’
BY: Judy Weightman
03.13.2010
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’ (1st review)
BY: Robert Zaller
12.19.2009
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