One Eternal Day

Last year I posted about two books I wanted to read that were to be published in 2026. One of them, Michael Dirda's  The Great Age of St...

Those who follow this blog know that one of my favorite authors is John Buchan  (1875-1940). I have posted about him, his thrillers, and oth...

From Ben Mankiewicz in "Hollywood’s Golden Era Still Has Lessons for America" : Think of Hollywood’s Golden Age as the era from 19...

Ben Domenech, in "She Loved God, Booze, And Cigarettes — And She Thought...," notes that today is the birthday of Dorothy L. Saye...

From CrimeReads , Jeffrey Archer selects the "the ten novels [he] return[s] to from before 1980," excluding Agatha Christie (who g...

The New Criterion has published an excerpt from Theodore Dalrymple's soon-to-be-published book about Agatha Christie. I always enjoy re...

Hitchcock is the director whose films I rewatch most often. I enjoy some of the early British movies, especially The Thirty-Nine Steps and ...

In the mail yesterday arrived a 4K Blu-ray of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974) from Kino Lorber. Watched it last n...

Dirda has reappeared at The Washington Post with "What are the best adventure novels?" including a list of books that he would c...

I did enjoy his novels, especially  Day of the Jackal and Dogs of War (both made into excellent films). He also narrated the BBC series S...

I'm not sure when I first discovered Elmore Leonard, but it was after the time he was writing Westerns (but I do have DVDs of some films...

Michael Dirda is just about the only reason I subscribed to The Washington Post and now he has retired. I do, however, have access to an ar...

I loved this, on Oliver Stone's film : Stone’s film — one of the great cinematic achievements of the 1990s — has a grasp of history that...

Standard EBooks continues to add to its library of beautifully formatted, downloadable, out-of-copyright, and thus free eBooks. This month,...

W.H. Auden observed that many mystery fans "have no interest in other “genre” stories—romances, Westerns, science fiction, fantasy....

Alec Guinness is one of my favorite actors. Not the Alec Guinness of Star Wars , particularly, but the Guinness of the Ealing comedies, or ...

Alan Jacobs is writing a biography of Dorothy L. Sayers. Today he considers a distinction she makes between stories of crime and stories of...

Before Master and Commander Peter Weir directed Witness , forty years ago. It's an old film by now, I suppose, but it doesn't seem ...

Last night I watched two of the Joan Hickson Miss Marple mysteries. I think Hickson is by far the best Marple on screen. I've owned the ...

Every January 1 st more works go out of copyright and enter the public domain. This year, in the United States, the songs, books, and films...