Roger Miller
Content by Roger Miller
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There are allusions to the Salem witch trials in Daniel Akst's The Webster Chronicle, but the witch hunt it more precisely reflects is the McMartin Preschool case of the 1980s, in which oper
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Title color is not the only significant thing shared by Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
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Along with everything else about the Korean War, the 406 men of Task Force Smith are little remembered now. They are not bathed in the reverential glow of a Pearl Harbor.
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"The average man doesn't want to be free," H.L. Mencken said.
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Fast times with Fast Eddie After finishing Robert L.
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Welcome to hard times From a high school history class in the late 1950s, I remember a teacher, attempting to shake us children of relative privilege out of our apathy, telling a personal story t
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Hail to the King! When Ginger Rogers died they said of her dancing that she did everything her more lavishly praised partner, Fred Astaire, did, and she did it backward and in high heels.
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1943 and all that The British long have boasted that their island nation has not been invaded by a foreign power in nearly a thousand years, not since William the Conqueror's little expedition in
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75 years of painting the town read The journalist Richard Rovere once said of Harold Ross, the founding editor of the New Yorker magazine, that his fundamental contribution to journalism was his f
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Portrait of a flawed and fascinating idol Most of all, Kate Burford says in Burt Lancaster: An American Life, Burt Lancaster wanted to be an intellectual.
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There is little that is funny about the society Bill Fitzhugh describes in his riotously funny novel, Cross Dressing.
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Evan Connell's Chronicle captures carnage and glory of the Crusades The novel as an art form embraces a multitude of expressions, from the epistolary adventures of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa t
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A journalist's edgy enthusiasms I tend to measure all literary journalists against Joseph Mitchell, who was a literary journalist before anyone and certainly any self-respecting journalist ever th
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A year in the life of America Villains just aren't what they used to be.
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ike sands through the hourglass If ol' Fred Nietzsche were around to review Simon Mawer's The Gospel of Judas, he'd probably say with a nod to fellow philosopher Yogi Berra "See?
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sands through the hourglass If ol' Fred Nietzsche were around to review Simon Mawer's The Gospel of Judas, he'd probably say with a nod to fellow philosopher Yogi Berra "See?
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n the trail of A Cold Case As decent and democratic and objective as you think yourself to be and probably are, when you watched the movie A Few Good Men and heard Jack Nicholson as the tough
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Like Mark Twain, I have a whole library of books not by Jane Austen. Though my knuckleheadedness in not being able to appreciate Ms.
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Like Mark Twain, I have a whole library of books not by Jane Austen. Though my knuckleheadedness in not being able to appreciate Ms.
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It is all quite mad.
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