Publications

A new book by Francis Fukuyama is always an event. That has been true since the publication of his essay…

Like Michael Haneke’s earlier film, Funny Games (q.v.), The Piano Teacher is disturbing in spite of being — or perhaps…

One is predisposed in favor The Sum of All Fears, directed by Phil Alden Robinson and based on the Tom…

No reporter or op-ed columnist ever refers to the Dalai Lama as a “liberal” Buddhist or a “conservative” Buddhist. I…

Every age suffers from the vices appropriate to its virtues. The Victorians — earnest, idealistic, pious, prudish about sex —…

Enough, directed by Michael Apted (who ought to know better), brings us another of the legends of the anti- Patriarchy…

For a critic with formalist tendencies, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing must be a nightmare. It is crammed full to bursting…

On All Souls’ Day last year, I accompanied several priests and students of Rome’sPontifical North American College to a Mass…

About a Boy is a not-altogether successful adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel by Chris and Paul Weitz, the team that…

On March 27, 1996, Muslim extremists kidnaped seven Trappist monks from their monastery in the Atlas Mountains near Algiers. After…

If Hollywood ever paid any attention to the opinions of critics, it might have some respect for the general rule…

Today’s scandal-time has inevitably raised questions about the celibate priesthood. Most polls indicate that a significant majority of U.S. Catholics…