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	<title>Commentary &#187; The Horizon</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 23:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Note to Our Readers</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/munson/2642</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Munson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;ve probably noticed, THE HORIZON has gone on hiatus. The arts and culture bloggers you enjoy are still writing for us, but now they can be read at CONTENTIONS.
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		<title>Wolff &#038; Tolstoy</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/2512</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often make the time to listen to The New Yorker&#8217;s fiction podcast, but this month&#8217;s is a treat: T. C. Boyle reading and discussing Tobias Wolff&#8217;s short story &#8220;Bullet in the Brain,&#8221; which first appeared in the magazine in 1995 and was included in Wolff&#8217;s 1996 collection The Night in Question. It&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/2427</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[• One of the smartest decisions the Library of America ever made was to include the complete text of Bill Mauldin’s Up Front in Reporting World War II, its two-volume anthology of World War II journalism. Up Front is the best collection of editorial cartoons ever published by an American, though that flat phrase cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boxer on Blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/suderman/2387</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Suderman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am continually fascinated by the blogosphere—its odd blend of willful insularity and often-startling reach; its dominant personalities, at who&#8217;ve succeeded not so much at being larger than life, but at simply recreating parallel versions of themselves online, seemingly able to document every waking thought in real time; at the alliances and infighting that dominate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Don B.</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/2278</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Barthelme is among those writers, like Kurt Vonnegut and (please, no laughter) Richard Brautigan, whom I found funny—sometimes brilliantly so—before coming to resent them as one-trick ponies, responsible, albeit indirectly, for much of the dross which passes for humor in today&#8217;s literature. Years ago, when McSweeney&#8217;s appeared on my radar in website form, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/2265</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[• Milt Hinton, who died eight years ago at the age of 90, was the most versatile jazz bassist who ever lived. He played with—just for starters—Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Bing Crosby, Paul Desmond, Aretha Franklin, Erroll Garner, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Jackie and Roy, Michel Legrand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Toltz</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/smith/2247</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Few terms make the professional book reviewer recoil like the term &#8220;first novel.&#8221; Am I to be subjected yet again to carefully measured, climate-controlled, Iowa Writers Workshopped prose in which not a word is wasted, everything is either vaguely sadness-washed or delicately precious, we build to a quietly devastating moment of clarity, and I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/2106</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[• “A tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, were they not?” Max Beerbohm once observed. No more so than the Wagners, a family whose head was the most fascinating and least likable great composer in the history of classical music. Even those who find Richard Wagner’s operas exasperating beyond endurance—a group that is legion and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bloody End</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/suderman/2045</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Suderman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the consensus view that P.T. Anderson&#8217;s latest film is a searing, visionary work, numerous critics have complained about the final scene of There Will Be Blood. The New Yorker&#8217;s David Denby calls it &#8220;a mistake.&#8221; Ross Douthat writes in the most recent National Review that the film&#8217;s weakest part is its end.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Clayton</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/munson/2024</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Munson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter, I&#8217;m no fan of the Oscars myself, and I think your post is spot-on. But I have to disagree with you about Michael Clayton. Tony Gilroy&#8211;the Bourne writer whose career has been pretty undistinguished except for the remarkable Dolores Claiborne&#8211;shocked me with his razor-sharp script: the corp-speak, Tom Wilkinson&#8217;s demented opening monologue, Tilda Swinton&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Time!</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/suderman/2023</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Suderman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on record as being an Oscar-cynic; as far as I&#8217;m concerned, the annual awards ceremony is, rather than a celebration of cinematic accomplishment, primarily an excuse for Hollywood to indulge in awesome displays of lavish narcissism.  Everything about the night, from the $40,000 gift bags to the six-figure formal-wear to the clunky mechanical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis v. Franklin</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1981</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with shock-horror revelations is that they can be made only once before they lose a good deal of their shock-horror quotient. For this reason I was surprised when, browsing in the current issue of The New Republic, I came across a piece by Ruth Franklin promising readers the &#8220;nasty truth about a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/1980</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[• Distrust of eloquence has long been a chronic condition among Americans—or maybe it’s just that we’ve forgotten how to be eloquent. A land whose political leaders were capable once upon a time of unblinkingly uttering phrases like “the mystic chords of memory” and “a date which will live in infamy” can surely do better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nabokov&#8217;s Stalemate</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1955</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope I&#8217;m not alone in finding something amusing about Ron Rosenbaum&#8217;s article—his breathless, agonized, pleading, even a little self-aggrandizing article—about whether or not Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s unfinished novel The Original of Laura should be destroyed in accordance with Nabokov&#8217;s wishes. Here are the facts:
What we do know is that the Laura manuscript consists of approximately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mona Lisa</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/munson/1915</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Munson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s portrait, after centuries, been conclusively identified: she is Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, long considered the most likely candidate and now proven to be the one beyond a doubt. German academics have dug up a letter from one of da Vinci&#8217;s friends attesting to this. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bearding the Prophet</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1909</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to confess a few literary sins. In high school, I read, along with usual suspects like The Dharma Bums, Naked Lunch, and A Coney Island of the Mind, certifiable nonsense like Carlos Castaneda&#8217;s Journey to Ixtlan and Ram Dass&#8217;s The Only Dance There Is. (I don&#8217;t mean that this is all I read, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/1885</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[• Everyone agrees that newspapers aren’t what they used to be—but what did they use to be? Fewer and fewer of us can remember a time when independently owned big-city newspapers, with their dictatorial proprietors and clean-up-this-town crusades, were a major cultural force in American life. For the most part, our understanding of these papers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zadie Smith and Friends</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1852</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that it&#8217;s difficult for critics to assess &#8220;charity lit&#8221; as honestly as they ought to. I&#8217;m referring to books like Nick Hornby&#8217;s Speaking with the Angel, Dave Eggers&#8217;s What Is the What, and now Zadie Smith&#8217;s The Book of Other People, which benefit autism research, Sudanese refugees, and children&#8217;s literacy, respectively. I&#8217;ve heard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Borges 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1795</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was original to a degree that should enchant and intimidate anyone who reads his stories and poems. Many authors have pondered the implications of infinity, time travel, parallel worlds, and the persistence or lack thereof of memory—Philip K. Dick creeps to mind—but few have done so as credibly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8216;No Country for Old Men&#8217; About the Culture of Death?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/smith/1761</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking away from the Coen Brothers film of No Country for Old Men, you may have a couple of questions. For instance, why is the film set in 1980? And what does it all mean? In Cormac McCarthy’s novel, it’s obvious why the story takes place in 1980. The reason is Vietnam. Most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Massingberd, R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1758</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, when Sam Munson related the sad news of George MacDonald Fraser&#8217;s death, he pointed readers to the Telegraph&#8217;s obituaries page. Fraser was memorialized in a number of British papers—here are the Independent and the Guardian—but I&#8217;m glad Sam settled on what is, for my money (or at least for my free online subscription), the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Fraser (And Flashman)!</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/1729</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Boot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to join my contentions colleague Sam Munson in hoisting a tumbler of single-malt to salute the passing of George MacDonald Fraser, the crusty old Scot who produced a brilliant dozen of the Flashman novels.
Fraser has never really gotten his due. Another historical novelist of 19th century warfare—Patrick O’Brian—has received far more critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George MacDonald Fraser, R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/munson/1726</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Munson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No-one would mistake the Flashman books for great literature. They&#8217;re full of cheaply-imagined sex and more than a bit of jingoism. But it would be impossible to deny their serious attention to historical detail, their capture of something essential about the vanished life of the British Empire. George MacDonald Fraser, the man who brought us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Movie That Wants You To Be Extremely Depressed</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/1725</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, my wife and I got around to seeing the acclaimed Away from Her, featuring sure-to-be-Oscar-nominated Julie Christie as a woman suffering from Alzheimer&#8217;s. Her husband is then forced to watch as she forms a loving bond with a male patient at her nursing home, and must find a way to reunite his wife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Je Ne Regrette Rien</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/peach/1723</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Peach</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has a bittersweet piece today about a smoking ban in France which has been expanded to include cafés: “Even France, Haven of Smokers, Is Clearing the Air.” The ban, “following the spread of Starbucks and the election of pro-American, fitness-friendly President Nicolas Sarkozy,” has occasioned a small identity-crisis for café-wallflowers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf: The Best of 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/1705</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reviewing books in this space for the past year, and instead of telling you about a new one this week, I thought I’d remind you of five of the ones I enjoyed most in 2007:
• Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare: The World as Stage (HarperCollins, 208 pp., $19.95) is the best short book about Shakespeare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Most Overrated Films of 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/smith/1701</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Michael Clayton.  (90 percent favorable rating on the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes). Billed as a realistic walk through the corridors of power, Michael Clayton winds up being a tepid, lugubrious, and preposterous thriller—art-house  Grisham. George Clooney plays a kind of lawyer who doesn&#8217;t even exist—though he works for a huge law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq in Fragments</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/totten/1685</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael J. Totten</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY&#8217;s online editor Sam Munson asked if I&#8217;d like to write a short piece about what I think are the top five movies of 2007 from and about the Middle East. Sure, I said. But once I got started I found I couldn&#8217;t write about five. I started with a two-paragraph blurb about James Longley&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Peterson, RIP</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/1687</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[cross-posted at About Last Night
Oscar Peterson, who died on Sunday, was one of a handful of jazz musicians to have cultivated a virtuoso technique comparable to that of the greatest classical instrumentalists. In part for this reason, he never got along well with jazz critics, most of whom were (and are) too musically ignorant to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Ledyard</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1683</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon 2007 will draw to a close, and with it the much-fêted fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kerouac&#8217;s On the Road. I&#8217;ve had all year to ponder it, but I&#8217;m no closer to understanding what the fuss is about. Could it really hurt to temper the praise by pointing out some of the book&#8217;s deficiencies? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s Hidden Gems</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/auslin/1676</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Auslin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan may no longer be the next great superpower, but its traditional culture remains one of the world’s great treasures.  Next time you’re in Tokyo with a few days to kill, get off the beaten path and head off to some of the spots most foreign tourists miss:
1. Izumo Taisha: The second main Shinto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Five Christmas Books</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1648</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If one is trying to &#8220;prove,&#8221; as Christopher Hitchens has been doing, that &#8220;religion poisons everything,&#8221; he probably ought to give it a rest around this time of year—if only as a matter of strategy. Many believers are willing and able to debate points of doctrine in a calm and dispassionate way; fewer will countenance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architectural Kudzu</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/lewis/1656</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael J. Lewis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was only a matter of time before someone picked up the cudgels on behalf of the “starchitects”—that new but already tired term for our celebrity architects—but it is surprising that it would be the New York Times’s architecture critic.  Last Sunday, Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote with great urgency in praise of starchitects, touting them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/1655</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[• Gertrude Himmelfarb, who apparently knows everything there is to know about Victorian England, has been publishing invaluable books about the Victorians for longer than it would be polite for me to disclose. I prune my shelves ruthlessly, but five of her books have found permanent places there. Now I&#8217;ll be making room for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Speaking of Movie Reviews&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/1650</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;my essay on the lavishly praised Atonement, published in The Weekly Standard, can be read here.
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		<title>The Funniest Movie Review of the Week Award&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/1649</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.goes to our fellow blogger Kyle Smith, whose take on National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a JOY to BEHOLD. (The use of ALL CAPS will become clear if you follow the link and read Kyle&#8217;s review.)
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		<title>Lumet&#8217;s Latest</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/suderman/1644</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Suderman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sidney Lumet&#8217;s Before the Devil Knows You&#8217;re Dead isn&#8217;t so much a heist picture as a post-heist picture, a film about the sad and deadly spiral of greed and evil that follows two brothers who plan a robbery of their own parents&#8217; jewelry store. As a genre, this is a small one, and often overlooked; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dithering on Dexter</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/suderman/1632</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Suderman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Showtime&#8217;s Dexter, which just finished its second season, is up for a WGA award this year. Like most high-profile cable dramas that have appeared in the wake of The Sopranos, it balances upper middlebrow dramatic concerns—quirky characters, complex narrative lines, psychological questioning—with visceral, often vulgar elements. But the competing interests of these two strains has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley Scott&#8217;s Final Cut</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/suderman/1621</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Suderman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The fifth and final cut of Ridley Scott&#8217;s 1982 science fiction classic, Blade Runner, comes out this week in a variety of overstuffed DVD packages. Anyone interested in the film should read Gary Giddin&#8217;s very eloquent New York Sun piece on the film&#8217;s somewhat awkward juxtaposition of marvelous visuals and clunky storytelling. He gets the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Christmas Story</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1613</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This holiday season, while other stocking stuffers hash out the comparative merits of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, J. K. Rowling, and Philip Pullman, why not cut these confections from your diet and go straight for the meat and potatoes (or bangers and mash) of Middle English poetry? I don&#8217;t mean the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blair Kamin, Cheerleader</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/lewis/1597</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael J. Lewis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It did not take long for the bouncers at the flashy and exclusive nightclub that is contemporary architecture to show John Silber the door.  Silber, the former president of Boston University, has just published Architecture of the Absurd: How &#8216;Genius&#8217; Disfigured a Practical Art, a heartfelt essay about the state of architecture today, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/1590</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[• The perfect non-fiction book is one that tells you everything you really need to know about a given subject, be it large or small, in 250 pages or less, and does the job with style. That was the yardstick I used when writing my brief life of George Balanchine, which is 185 pages long. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Terry Teachout</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/peach/1580</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Peach</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In our December interview with Terry Teachout, the veteran contributor to COMMENTARY and horizon regular discusses the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North   Korea and Peter Gay’s new book Modernism: The Lure of Heresy. He also takes readers on an absorbing outing to New York City’s historic Knoedler &#038; Company, one of Manhattan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sound of Novels</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1556</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The literary blogger Maud Newton posted yesterday about the &#8220;soundtrack approach to novel writing.&#8221; It&#8217;s a solution to so-called writer&#8217;s block: &#8220;My friend had a surprisingly practical suggestion: Give each part [of a novel] its own soundtrack. Listen to different music as you work on each section, and make sure it&#8217;s the same music every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Philharmonic in Pyongyang</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/1551</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[cross-posted at About Last Night 
I just got back from a press conference at Lincoln Center&#8217;s Avery Fisher Hall at which the New York Philharmonic officially announced its plans to play in Pyongyang on February 26. Present were Paul Guenther, the orchestra&#8217;s chairman; Zarin Mehta, the orchestra&#8217;s president and executive director; and Pak Gil Yon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/mandle/1538</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara Mandle</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official: the trip that Benjamin Ivry deemed &#8220;likely&#8221; to happen on this blog in October will indeed go forward. This coming February, the New York Philharmonic will visit North Korea.
About the trip to the land of Kim Jong Il, the New York Times reports U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill&#8217;s commenting, &#8220;&#8216;I hope it will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;enfer, c&#8217;est moi-m&#234;me</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1534</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/beck/1534#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the New Year, our thoughts inevitably turn to resolutions. Running a marathon, learning Mandarin, and reading the Deipnosophistae are among the many things I will end up not doing in 2008. Keeping a diary will appear on many to-do lists, but anyone contemplating this soul-pulping undertaking should first read Louis Menand&#8217;s New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oprah Winfrey Endorses&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/mandle/1516</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara Mandle</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anybody read the New York Observer anymore? I actually didn’t know it was still published, having tuned out when Hilton Kramer retired his front page art column a few years back. But the salmon-colored sheet drew my attention this week with a candidate for the most inane cover story ever: underwear.
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[• I like shoptalk, even when I don’t completely understand it, and I like it best of all when the shop is the studio of a working artist. To be sure, a lifetime in journalism has taught me that some artists are incapable of talking about their work—or anything else—but it’s surprising how often a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myers on Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a rare review that can change one&#8217;s mind about a book he has deeply enjoyed—so rare that B. R. Myers&#8217;s Atlantic piece on Denis Johnson&#8217;s Tree of Smoke is my only personal example. (Myers&#8217;s razor-sharp Reader&#8217;s Manifesto can be read here.) In October, somewhat to my surprise, I found myself in the choir singing [...]]]></description>
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