Why the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend is better than the book. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Arts
The Cold War novelist on the big and small screen. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Lincoln and Django Unchained represent what passes for artistic sensibility in today's Hollywood. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Avatar is the latest example of where art, politics, and theology meet. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
War and torture get the Hollywood treatment. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a blurry copy of the Hong Kong original. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
The merciless comic keeps hitting below the Borscht Belt. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
An inside look at Dan Brown's new novel. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
The Queen and Marie Antoinette ask whether the modern world can understand monarchy anymore. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Cantor attempts to link four TV programs to the themes of globalization and the end of the nation state. A review of Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization (2001).
Review of The Cold War and the United States Information Agency, by Nicholas J. Cull
Five discomfiting aspects of the media spectacle that now accompanies every mass shooting.
A lesson from Nigeria, on balancing the blessings of modernity and the celebration of an ancestral past.