Everyone looks beautiful, the acting is good (with one semi-exception), and Nine successfully evokes Fellini, but I don’t think I see the point of the exercise, here or in the stage original. That the dialogue …

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This isn’t the typical book question, but I know that the readers are an observant and helpful bunch so hopefully this isn’t too weird for them.   Here goes.
I got a coupon off Facebook …

This is, I believe, the presumptive favorite for Best Foreign Film, with good reason. I’ve only seen one of the other nominees, and it’s good, but The White Ribbon is in another class entirely; it’s …

For my tenth birthday, my mother got me a framed copy of the front page of the New York Times from the day I was born. The big headline is about food costs pushing up …

I actually enjoyed it, because I expected to hate it, and while it is definitely bad — buys into its own pompous mythos, takes too long to explain a conflict nobody cares about, thinks it’s …

Hi Sarah,
Seeing so many reader entries about children’s books has gotten me nostalgic for the books of my childhood. I remember a lot of them, but there were two I loved but cannot remember the …

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So, I am beginning to think I might be crazy, because I am looking for a book I loved but I am having no luck at all.
I read it in the 1970s; it was about …

Sars —
I’m hoping the readers can help me out with my search for a beloved childhood read.   It was a YA novel about a teenage girl in post-Revolutionary America (I think Jefferson was president …

I’m looking for a book I read in the mid-to-late 1980s.   It was a young adult book and involved a teen boy who has an amulet that causes a portal to another world to …

In middle school, instead of an elective, I was a Library Aide.   I was a super goob, but I got to read a lot of really good books — I stumbled across du Maurier …