TMZ Is the Justice of the Masses
Christopher Beha's Arts & Entertainments, and how we create and consume stories of other people's lives in order to feel better about our own.
Eve Tushnet
August 1, 2014
The Giraffe Trick: Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty”
In decadent Rome, an aging art critic rides the success of his one, long-ago novel, and wonders if there’s…
Eve Tushnet
December 6, 2013
The Cleveland Plan
“Location, location, location” refers to real estate…and income mobility? The Times reports that the industrial Midwest and South are home…
Anthony Dent
July 26, 2013
Do You Know the Bible?
Congressmen, columnists, and Americans alike find the good book easier to praise than read.
Robert Long
June 26, 2013
These Girls Are Sad For Now
“You have to watch this show; the first few episodes are the most reactionary critique of sexually liberated Brooklyn…
Michael Brendan Dougherty
January 14, 2013
God Gave This Land to Me
This is going around, very well done. Who is Nina Paley?
Scott McConnell
October 5, 2012
Jury’s Still Out in Spike Lee’s Trial of God
On Saturday I saw “Red Hook Summer,” the latest in Spike Lee’s “Chronicles of Brooklyn” series (of which 1989’s…
Eve Tushnet
September 2, 2012
Gotta Have Somebody Serve . . .
It occurs to me that I have yet to give my nod to a candidate in the Republican Primary,…
Clark Stooksbury
April 1, 2012
No Mas
I understand that _____ _____ has been in the news recently, and if there is one person in the…
Clark Stooksbury
September 16, 2011
Throw Them to the Lions (in Detroit)
The confluence of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the first full day of the 2011 National Football League…
Philip Giraldi
September 4, 2011