D. S. BattistoliIn defense of the cut-upThe movie All the Old Knives is a grown-up spy thriller that, disdaining to distract, misses out on diversion and entertainment.Apr 14, 2022Apr 14, 2022
D. S. BattistoliThe Enduring Imperfection of Thought, or, A Few Problematic FavesJoan Didion, after several years of not covering the civil rights movement, did so in an essay called Black Panther. She was not impressedApr 13, 20221Apr 13, 20221
D. S. BattistoliOur Correspondent in CaliforniaAmong New Journalists who started writing in the U.S. in the 1960s, Joan Didion payed the least attention to the civil rights movement.Jan 12, 2022Jan 12, 2022
D. S. BattistoliGood cop, bad cop, same copSidney Lumet’s Prince of the City investigates the moral progress of a whistleblower, as victims of corruption remain offstageJun 17, 2021Jun 17, 2021
D. S. BattistoliThe impossibility of reformAn old police procedural for our timeJun 17, 2021Jun 17, 2021
D. S. BattistoliThe voyage into literary representationThe art of the query letter, as illustrated by a novel about Suriname in the eighteenth centuryJun 10, 2021Jun 10, 2021
D. S. BattistoliSet It Off: making you care and breaking your heartFun with genre filmsJun 8, 2021Jun 8, 2021
D. S. BattistoliQAnon, The Conjuring, and the devilA movie about an interventionist devil comes out as polls show an unprecedented number of Americans believe in that: a surefire hit?May 28, 2021May 28, 2021
