2019 marks the 50th anniversary of “Civilisation,” British art historian Kenneth Clark’s masterful television survey spanning the genius of artists, architects, writers, and philosophers from…
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NB Blog Feed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had spent the last seven years holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, evading the authorities before…
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NB Blog Feed A new Netflix offering, The Highwaymen, is the story of the murderous 1930’s bank-robber duo of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, i.e.…
Read More »NB Blog Feed It pays to have the right “troll” enemies: The New York Times has three times of late come to the rescue of…
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Facts: The novel Golden State was published in January 2019 by Mulholland Books. It is 336 pages in length. Its dimensions are 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches. Speculations: After reading Golden…
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NB Blog Feed The New York Times’ front page on Saturday featured political reporter Sydney Ember in Iowa, savoring all the wonderful Democratic candidates primed…
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NB Blog Feed The New York Times again took on basic biology and sex traits in the….paper’s special Design section (!), which devoted a full…
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NB Blog Feed The trouble started at the top, with the headline under Karen Zraick’s story in Saturday’s New York Times on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s…
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NB Blog Feed New York Times Hollywood reporter Brooks Barnes made Tuesday’s front page with a petulant look at the Academy Awards and the Oscar-winning…
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NB Blog Feed Today’s front-page story: 19 year-old hates job, rejects capitalism! That was indeed the big feature on the front of Monday’s New York…
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