Featured Reviews

The Interrogative Mood: a Novel? (2009) - Padgett Powell  (Grade:B+)

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Whalefall: A Novel (2023) - Daniel Kraus  (Grade:C)

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2BR02B (short story) (1962) - Kurt Vonnegut  (Grade:A-)

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The Unquiet Sleep (1962) - William Haggard  (Grade:B+)

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The Ballad of Mulan (6th Century) - Unknown Unknown  (Grade:A)

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The Wind in the Willows (1908) - Kenneth Grahame  (Grade:A+)

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018) - Patrick Raden Keefe  (Grade:A-)

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Come Back Dead (1997) - Terence Faherty  (Grade:B+)

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The Hawaiian Cult that raised Tulsi Gabbard (with Christine Gralow) [Podcast] (2026) - Christine Gralow  (Grade:B)

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Pay-Off in Blood (1962) - Brett Halliday  (Grade:B)

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The Odyssey (2017) - Emily Wilson  (Grade:A+)

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A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) (2021) - Ferenc Horcher  (Grade:A-)

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One Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen (essay) (2000) - Anthony Bourdain  (Grade:B+)

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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997) - Pauline Maier  (Grade:B+)

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Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey  (Grade:B)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) - Steven Spielberg  (Grade:C-)

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BEST CONSERVATIVE FILMS:
Andrei Rublev (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky  (Grade:A)

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Strictly Ballroom (1992) - Baz Luhrmann  (Grade:A+)

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It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Lloyd Bacon  (Grade:B)

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A Man Escaped (or The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth) [Un condamnéà mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle oùil veut] (1956) - Robert Bresson  (Grade:A+)

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The Apostle (1997) - Robert Duvall  (Grade:A)

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Brothers Judd Daily

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09/07/26:

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was born in Greenwich, ENG on September 7, 1533. Daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn, she ruled from 1558 to 1603.

Grandma "Anna Maria" Moses (1860-1961) was born in Greenwich, NY on September 7, 1860.

Elia Kazan (1909-) was born in Constaninople, Turkey on September 7, 1909. His great movie On the Waterfront (1954) is an allegory for his own decision to fight evil by testifying against fellow communists.

Sonny Rollins (1930-) was born in New York City, NY on September 7, 1930. Dryfoos recommends Saxophone Colossus

Charles Harden "Buddy" Holly (1936-59) was born in Lubbock, TX on September 7, 1936. Of course, February 2, 1959 was "the Day the Music Died". Brothers Judd recommends The Buddy Holly Collection, which has just about everything they ever did.

Joe Klein (1946-) was born in New York, NY on September 7, 1946. Read Orrin's review of Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics (1996)(Anonymous aka Joe Klein) (Grade: A-)

Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), proof that all rules have exceptions, was born in France on September 6, 1757.

On September 6, 1936, Beryl Markham became the first person to fly the Atlantic solo from East to West. Read Orrin's review of her great memoir, West With the Night (1941) (Beryl Markham 1902-1986) (Grade: A+)

On September 6, 1901, PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency upon McKinley's death 8 days later.

Richard Wright (1908-60) was born in Natchez, MS on September 4, 1908. Read Orrin's review of Native Son (1940)(Grade: C+).

Alan Ladd (1913-64) was born in Hot Springs, AR on September 3, 1913. Of course, his great iconic role was in Shane (1953)(read Orrin's review of the novel), but check out the two films he made with Veronica Lake, The Glass Key (1942) and This Gun for Hire (1942).

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was born in South Berwick, ME on September 3, 1849. Read Orrin's review of The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

Allen Drury (1918-98) was born in Houston, TX on September 2, 1918. Read Orrin's review of Advise and Consent (1959) (Grade: A)

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was born in Brody, Galicia, Austria-Hungary on September 2, 1894. Read Orrin's review of The Radetzky March (1932) and The Emperor's Tomb (1938) (Grade: A+)

Salma Hayek (1968-) was born in Coatzacoalcos, MX on September 2, 1968. See Orrin's review ofThe Road to Serfdom (1944)

SELECTED POETRY OF EUGENE FIELD (1850-95) Eugene Field (1850-95), author of such favorites as Little Boy Blue and Wynken, Blynken and Nod, was born in St. Louis, MO on September 2, 1850.

Blaise Cendrars [Frédéric Louis Sauser] (1887-1961) was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switz on September 1, 1887. Read Orrin's review of Gold: Being the Marvelous History of General John Augustus Sutter (1925)

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was born on September 1, 1875.Read Orrin's review of Tarzan of the Apes (1912)

Van Morrison (1945-) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on August 31, 1945. Brothers Judd recommends The Best of Van Morrison