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2 weeks ago | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | William Schwartz |Matt Hanson
Every generation has its own struggles. This play, which aired live on CNN last night, takes place 70 years ago.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Gabriel Byrne |Stephen Garrett |Matt Hanson |Kathy O'Neill
A handsome Criterion re-release gives new life to the masterful third film from the Coen Brothers
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
artsfuse.org | Matt Hanson
By Matt HansonWith the release of Wild God, his stirring 18th studio album, it seems as if the charismatic poète maudit has achieved, and more impressively maintained, his own version of peace. Nick Cave is one of the few living singers I can think of who knows his way around both the sacred and the profane. According to Mutiny in Heaven, a documentary about his early years with The Birthday Party, Cave’s raucous band was fueled by an obsession with the wrathful God of the Old Testament.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn |Neal Pollack |Matt Hanson |Stephen Garrett
We have problems in Texas right now, but at least we don’t have these problems. Or do we?
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Liam Hunt |Thomas Doherty |Greg Koabel |Matt Hanson
Jin-class Chinese nuclear submarines are circling Taiwan. A few miles away, the Taiwanese coast guard is on high alert, ever-ready to respond to what increasingly feels like the inevitable. For decades, Chinese officials have claimed that the independent nation of Taiwan rightfully belongs to China and signalled that they’re willing to use military force, if necessary, to bring it under their control.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Thomas Doherty |Greg Koabel |Matt Hanson |Fred Litwin
Killing the right person can change history. Even scholars with a disciplinary commitment to the idea that technological determinants, Marxist dialectics, and other impersonal forces inexorably shape the course of human events have to reckon with the transformative impact of a single life that, once snuffed out, derails a timeline and leaves the survivors to ponder the might-have-beens. Would the better angels of our nature have prevailed had the derringer of John Wilkes Booth jammed?
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Greg Koabel |Matt Hanson |Fred Litwin |Jeffrey Herf
What follows is the twenty-first instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialised Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name. While this series is called “Nations of Canada,” readers will have noticed that many of the events being described did not take place in what is now Canada. There are two reasons for these excursions.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Matt Hanson |Fred Litwin |Jeffrey Herf |Jason Andrew Garshfield
A review of Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack; 576 pages; John Murray Press (June 2024)I first heard Nick Drake’s music in a Volkswagen commercial, of all things, during the late 1990s. A couple gazed at each other in a moonlit car while an English voice crooned about a pink moon over a wistfully strummed guitar. The product didn’t interest me, but that commercial sparked my lifelong devotion to Drake’s music.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Pamela Paresky |Matt Hanson |Fred Litwin |Jeffrey Herf
In an interview by Pamela Paresky, Lahav Harkov, a journalist and political analyst, discusses the Israeli parliamentary system, highlighting the challenges of forming coalitions and the voter’s role in selecting parties over individual candidates. She examines the tension between ultra-Orthodox Jews, exempt from military service, and the secular community, emphasising the need for mutual recognition in achieving peace agreements.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Matt Hanson
There was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden (Hachette Books, 272 pages, $32.00)Is there an American song as iconic and yet as easily misinterpreted as Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.”? The title alone sure sounds patriotic at first glance, especially when those words are sung in the raw, charismatic way that Springsteen renders it. There’s precious little distance between singer and listener.
