Grasping Extraordinary Evil Through the Very Ordinary
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This film of middle school students who managed to create a Holocaust memorial is so self-congratulatory it tugs against the gravity of the Holocaust itself.
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A surreal nightmare of gleaming surfaces and razor-sharp edges, âThe Bothersome Manâ unfolds in a sterile city where nothing is quite as it seems.
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Cynthia Ozick's new novel, Heir to the Glimmering World, is very much in line with the other fiction for which she is known so well. This story, like many of her others, deals with the Holocaust, obsession with scholarly arcana, mental imbalance and the lives of outsiders. The moral seriousness is evident from the start, but the novel also is a very good story.
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With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
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Psychologists once conducted a simple experiment with far-reaching implications: They asked people to describe an instance in their lives when they had hurt someone and another instance when they had been hurt by someone else. The incidents that people described were similar whether they saw...
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Among the handiest villains in science fiction are Computers That Know Too Much. Think of the dream-weaving despots of "The Matrix" or murderous HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey." But in reality, even the most super supercomputer lacks the reasoning capacity of a child engrossed in a Dr. Seuss book. Computers can't read the way we do. They can't learn or reason like us.
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Todd FieldÂs superb film adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta result is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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John Malkovich has virtually cornered the market on portraying aesthetes in the thrall of demonic visions. âKlimtâ adds to his gallery of elegant monsters.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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What goes around, comes around with a vengeance.
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1. "The Grim Grotto" by Lemony Snicket
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To play an evil-doer convincingly, Ben  Kingsley says, you must first understand the pain that turned  that person into what they are.
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In "Keane," the filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan both gives us a life at the edge of the abyss and pulls off an extremely deft narrative sleight of hand.
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With the exacting ruthlessness of a novel by Georges Simenon, "The Aura" tells the story of an ordinary man caught up in a web of crime, accident and mistaken identity.
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It&#39;s not about character. There&#39;s no moral lesson. It&#39;s not even about solving a mystery, though the question of what is happening is at first haunting.
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As the writer delves into his wretched childhood, his operation seems less like a turning point than an overcharged symbolic event. In a curious way, this only makes the story more intriguing.