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Cross-Cultural
‘Saturday Night Fever,’ revisited
BY: Judy Weightman
08.31.2010
Julia Roberts and ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
BY: Marge Murray
08.31.2010
The imam, the mosque and Ground Zero
BY: Robert Zaller
08.28.2010
Dr. Laura and the ‘n’ word
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
08.23.2010
Farewell to the ’50s
BY: Perry Block
08.17.2010
Why the ‘U.S.S. Olympia’ matters
BY: Andrew Mangravite
08.16.2010
The case for professional soccer
BY: Tom Purdom
08.16.2010
On renaming my commuter train
BY: Jonathan Pappas
08.13.2010
On selling Viagra
BY: Gerald Weales
08.13.2010
Can positive thoughts make you rich?
BY: Thom Nickels
08.10.2010
Ralph Lauren at Monticello (Part 2)
BY: Caroline Dunlop Millett
08.07.2010
The charm of minor league baseball
BY: John L. Erlich
08.07.2010
Confessions of an illegal immigrant
BY: Jackie Atkins
08.07.2010
An antidote for cheating: The performing arts
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
08.03.2010
Electronic books vs. ink on paper
BY: Tom Purdom
07.31.2010
Pennsic’s medieval make-believe
BY: Kristen Eaton
07.27.2010
Ralph Lauren’s Monticello makeover
BY: Caroline Dunlop Millett
07.27.2010
Our dreams, our movies, and ‘Inception’
BY: AJ Sabatini
07.25.2010
Society Hill’s revival: A memoir
BY: Franklin Roberts
07.24.2010
LeBron James makes his decision
BY: Robert Liss
07.17.2010
A Caribbean cruise from hell
BY: Thom Nickels
07.16.2010
Test scores: A teacher’s tale
BY: Candy Kean
07.08.2010
John Waters and his ‘Role Models’
BY: Norman Roessler
06.26.2010
Fear and integration in Wynnefield, c. 1970
BY: Robert P. Levin
06.26.2010
On saving the U.S.S. ‘Olympia’
BY: Franklin Roberts
06.15.2010
SEPTA: The tragedy and the prevarication
BY: Robert Zaller
06.15.2010
On not pitying Palestinians
BY: Robert Zaller
06.12.2010
Martha Nussbaum’s ivory tower
BY: Norman Roessler
06.08.2010
Coach John Wooden: A remembrance
BY: John L. Erlich
06.08.2010
Canoeing through the Meadowlands
BY: Matthew Green
05.28.2010
Double jeopardy: A Philadelphia scandal
BY: Robert Zaller
05.28.2010
High Diver: A Wildwood memory, 1954
BY: Bob Ingram
05.25.2010
The forgotten MOVE victims
BY: Robert Zaller
05.15.2010
Robin Roberts: Gentle warrior
BY: Robert Zaller
05.07.2010
A new soccer team’s fight song
BY: Gerald Weales
05.01.2010
Virtual goodbyes: Death and the Internet
BY: Kristen Eaton
05.01.2010
What’s in a nickname?
BY: Bob Levin
04.20.2010
Fighting Steve Wynn: A civics lesson
BY: Thom Nickels
04.17.2010
NCAA basketball returns to its essence
BY: Robert Liss
04.10.2010
The Meadowlands: Quest for dilapidation
BY: Matthew Green
04.06.2010
Joys of spring training
BY: Steve Cohen
04.03.2010
Priestly abuse: It happened to me
BY: Merilyn Jackson
03.30.2010
Artists, writers and taxes: Another Philadelphia story
BY: Kristen Eaton
03.30.2010
Two lovers on Spruce Street (poem)
BY: Lynn Hoffman
03.27.2010
Priestly sex abuse: Who’s to blame?
BY: Thom Nickels
03.27.2010
Teen ‘flash mobs’: The brighter side
BY: Franklin Roberts
03.23.2010
Another take on priestly abuse
BY: Bob Ingram
03.13.2010
‘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
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
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’
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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