D. S. Battistoli·Apr 14, 2022In 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.
D. S. Battistoli·Apr 13, 2022The 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 impressedA response icon1A response icon1
D. S. Battistoli·Jan 12, 2022Our 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.
D. S. Battistoli·Jun 17, 2021Good cop, bad cop, same copSidney Lumet’s Prince of the City investigates the moral progress of a whistleblower, as victims of corruption remain offstage
D. S. Battistoli·Jun 10, 2021The voyage into literary representationThe art of the query letter, as illustrated by a novel about Suriname in the eighteenth century
D. S. Battistoli·May 28, 2021QAnon, 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?
