Evanston RoundTable Jan. 17, 2013 There’s a line comedies can cross over, sometimes into stupidity, sometimes into cruelty. Either way it’s rarely amusing. Such is — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 3, 2013 Some of the year’s best movies, still playing at first-run theaters, are set in the past, which makes for a — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 6, 2012 Steven Spielberg’s epic new biopic “Lincoln” opens on a panorama of Boschian horror, black and white soldiers hacking away at — Read More
New York Times Book Review, Nov. 11, 2012 To the Editor: Kurt Andersen’s entertaining and rueful recollection of meeting Kurt Vonnegut called to mind my — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 8, 2012 Movies have come a long way on the topic of living with disabilities. In “An Affair to Remember,” released in 1957, — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 25, 2012 In the wake of Dajae Coleman’s shooting death, there’s been a call for greater mentorship. Some people will wonder how they — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 11, 2012 Everyone of a certain age will remember the sprightly synthesizer tune that played as Mario scooted along in the wildly — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2012 Hospice training sometimes includes an exercise in which participants are asked to list the 10 activitites that give them the — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 13, 2012 In the winter of 1417, Poggio Bracciolini set out for a remote mountain-top monastery to seek out a manuscript he — Read More