If it’s not too late to pick my favorite reads from 2012, I offer Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story. It’s a wonderful look at some of the big questions about how we came to be, who we are, and […]
So how close is Lincoln depicted by Daniel Day-Lewis in the current film to what historians believe was the historical personality? Pretty close, actually. The New York Review of Books has published an interesting story about the film. Here is writer David Bromwich on Lincoln’s […]