Since it is 2009 we are seeing both best-of-the-year and best-of-the-decade lists. While many of these lists seemingly serve to reinforce critical consensus, the same cannot be said of the Toronto International Film Festival’s list of the best movies...

Taking Ford Maddox Ford’s suggestion to heart (”Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you”), The Page 99 Test asks authors to focus in on this particular page. Recently, Kelly Oliver took the...

Last night, President Obama articulated his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, which is now in its eighth year. Needless to say, the complicated nature of Afghan politics, which is characterized by both change and chaos as well as and continuing...

* There will be a discussion and reception with Toby Talbot for her new book on Thursday, December 3rd at 7:00 pm at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas at 1886 Broadway (at 62nd Street) Peter Bogdanovich says the New Yorker Theater is where he got his education....

Now that the Thanksgiving meal has been eaten and people have moved on to Black Friday or Cyber Monday, we thought it appropriate to mention Gary Steiner’s much-discussed New York Times op-ed from last week, Animal, Vegetable, Miserable. In the essay,...