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  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  05.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have long admired Rosenbaum as one of the two premier critics in Chicago (the other one should be an obvious guess). He has now retired from the erstwhile Chicago Reader and all his reviews are now online. Including one of my favorite one - on Joe Dante’s Small Soldiers and Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private [...]

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  Tufte Was Here

  05.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Pardon the title but being a fan of visual representation of quantitative data, and of Edward Tufte, I really, really liked The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts, 1986-2008 by Mathew Bloch, Lee Byron, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox. Great stuff. Us historians need to learn from these guys ways of presenting historical [...]

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  Out and About

  04.25.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I will be in Berlin and Copenhagen next week. Any gentle readers in continental Europe are urged to make arrangements for a proper sitdown with this provincial, liberal sectarian. Rest can go about their own business.

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  Flat Footed

  04.23.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  This just made my day.

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  About Edward Said

  04.14.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  From Jane Kramer’s The Petition: Israel, Palestine, and a tenure battle at Barnard, New Yorker, April 21, 2008:

  Hannah Temple, a MEALAC major who graduated last June, told me, “I left Columbia sorry to have had my academic experience in that department. You couldn’t get anything done; it was so bitterly divided. And then there was [...]

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  Bandwagon

  03.03.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Catching up on my NYer, I see that Salman Rushdie is now doing movie tie-in literature. To coincide with the release of Jodha Akbar, is his maudlin The Shelter of the World. Finally, someone brings the missing Three Deep Marks on testicles to the historical narrative discovered by the mighty good fillum. Um. Enjoy?