David Thomson on Films: Happy Birthday to an American Icon We No Longer Deserve

The Romance of Realism

Europe’s Other Crisis

The Trouble with Scientism

“The Tao Jones Index”

Meet the Next Louis Armstrong

David Thomson on Films: The Flirtatious Game-Playing of Classic Hollywood Romances

John Hammond and the Myth of the Musical King-Maker

Let in the Riffraff: In Praise of the New York Public Library’s Renovation Plan

The Analytic Prose That Defined the Architecture of Southern California

David Thomson on Films: How ‘The Godfather’ Was Diminished By Its State-of-the-Art Restoration

David Hajdu on Music: Billboard Goddesses

Freedom Porn

The Knowns and the Unknowns

Genocide and the Fine Arts

Cockroaches and Compromise

How a New Clip of Anne Frank’s Life Brings Us Closer To Her Death

A Superb Movie That Shows How the Smallest Incidents Change Lives

Sex and the Single 'Girls'

In Memoriam: Former TNR Literary Editor Reed Whittemore (1919 - 2012)