Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Das Experiment , from a screenplay by Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstädt and Don Bohlinger, based on the novel Black Box by Mario Giordano, has reportedly caused a sensation in Germany and on the international festival circuit, and well it might-not merely for what the movie is in itself, but also for its having Read More
The dog days of an insufferable summer are barking hoarsely to an end, the cartoons and aliens are on their way to the video stores, the kids are safely back where they belong in classroom bondage, and the fall promises headier stuff. Armed with notebooks, ballpoint pens, and a fresh supply of No-Doz and Murine, Read More
“So what am I supposed to eat?” asked my son in a belligerent tone as he scanned the menu at Ping’s Seafood in Chinatown. “Dried frog? Organ belly?”
I had been told to expect changes in a sweet 12-year-old on the cusp of adolescence. But this boy had always been a fearless eater. He’d ordered Read More
The Binding Chair or, A Visit From the Foot Emancipation Society , by Kathryn Harrison. Random House, 312 pages, $24.95.
Fans of Kathryn Harrison will find her new novel no less lush and highly scented than Poison , and no less of a shocker than her best-selling memoir, The Kiss . It almost Read More
The Binding Chair or, A Visit From the Foot Emancipation Society , by Kathryn Harrison. Random House, 312 pages, $24.95.
Fans of Kathryn Harrison will find her new novel no less lush and highly scented than Poison , and no less of a shocker than her best-selling memoir, The Kiss . It almost goes without Read More
Joe’s Shanghai has had a lot of great press over the past two years. It has been hailed as one of the best restaurants in Chinatown, but that wasn’t enough to persuade me to spend an hour in line waiting to get in (they don’t take reservations). On a recent Sunday, however, when some friends Read More
