Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen This slim volume by the president and founder of the Nexus Institute, a European-based humanist think-tank, stands as the most stirring redoubt against the ascendant forces of know-nothingness that we'v

LOOK it isn't Venice, Berlin or Cannes, but what were you expecting? Our city has considerably fewer canals, is divided socially to the north and south and not politically by east and west, and the closest we come to Cannes is t-shirts for sale on Moore

In my review of John Banville's The Newton Letter I mentioned that in the book Banville speaks of two letters from Newton to John Locke, although in historical fact there was only one. At the end of the book Banville provides a "Note" in which he states

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children you

I’ve often wondered what happened to those involved in Once, that delightful low-budget Irish film about the romance between a Dublin busker and a Czech pianist and mother. It won an Oscar for Best Song – Falling Slowly. Now its writer-director John Carn

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children you

Buy This Photo In this film image released by Roadside Attractions, Mia Wasikowska, left, and Glenn Close are shown in a scene from "Albert Nobbs." (AP Photo/Roadside Attractions, Patrick Redmond) If Conan O'Brien and Robin Williams had a baby, the infan

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children you

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children you

The Elegant Variation: HERE WE GO AGAIN. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) What one presumes Leonard is saying, given the other dumbed-down rules on his list, is that he eschews what we commonly refer to, for want of a better term, as lyrical prose. One imagines

The Elegant Variation is "Fowler’s (1926, 1965) term for the inept writer’s overstrained efforts at freshness or vividness of expression. Prose guilty of elegant variation calls attention to itself and doesn’t permit its ideas to seem naturally clear. It

AT STONEY ROAD PRESS the art hangs on pegs from the ceiling. Today, Donald Teskey prints are freshly racked overhead, like the most expensive tea towels you can imagine. They are landscapes, identical but for the tiny differences that come from being han

So there you are surfing Facebook when you learn that one of your closest friends has decided he wants to be a woman. He's just posted a status update announcing he is going for a sex-change operation and henceforth wishes to be known as Samantha.Your ja

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children you

The BBC’s adaptation of Great Expectations stripped the heart out of Charles Dickens, screenwriter Andrew Davies has said. Mr Davies, who wrote the BBC’s acclaimed adaptations of Bleak House and Little Dorrit, says the Christmas adaptation “didn’t feel l

Albert Nobbs is story of a woman living as a man in Ireland in the early 20th century. Albert (Oscar nominated Glenn Close) serves as a waiter at a little upscale hotel. His world is so small that he barely leaves the hotel and hardly ever utters full se

Glenn Close winning her first Oscar nomination since "Dangerous Liaisons" for "ALBERT NOBBS" Albert Nobbs is story of a woman living as a man in Ireland in the early 20th century. Albert (Oscar nominated Glenn Close) serves as a waiter at a little upscal

Albert Nobbs (Roadside Attractions) Rated R for some sexuality, brief nudity and language. Starring Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Janet McTeer, Pauline Collins, Brenda Fricker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Brendan Gleeson, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Mar

Or, in the case of "Albert Nobbs," the woman pretending to be the man. An invisible man, to be sure. Or as invisible as the woman who inhabits him can possibly make him. The irony being that Glenn Close, who plays "Albert Nobbs' " title role, is far from