From the monthly archives: May 2006

Brick

By Rufus Pollock On May 28, 2006 · Leave a Comment

7.5/10. Very good first feature based on the conceit of rendering the traditional noir with all its trapping of a dead girl, dirty deals and a double-crossing femme fatale in the environment of a modern American high school replete with jocks, the ‘upper crust’ and jaded loners who eat alone.

As the plot zig-zags vertiginously [...]

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Technology and History

By Rufus Pollock On May 28, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Found in a review by Gary Will’s of Taylor Branch’s At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 in the NYRB (2006-04-06, p. 20):

It is amazing how Branch can marshal so much material along so many tracks, moving it ahead stage by stage in coordination with King’s actions. The I saw Branch [...]

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The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

By Rufus Pollock On May 1, 2006 · Leave a Comment

It took 12 years to produce (1988-2000) and cost 4.5 million dollars (according to its editor Richard Talbert). It has a whole page dedicated to listing donors and supporters of the project. It recruited seventy-three compilers, with ten regional editors with ninety-five reviewers and twenty-two cartographers.

It is 148 pp. long and with companion gazetteer [...]

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