Ron Capshaw

The Testaments

22 October 2019

BY MARGARET ATWOOD NAN A. TALESE, 2019 432 PP.; $28.95 [Mild spoiler alert: this review contains plot details of the book.] During the torture... Read More

TV Review: The Handmaid’s Tale

30 May 2017

[Spoiler alert: this review contains extensive plot details] The first thing the viewer notices in the Hulu TV series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s... Read More

Book Review: Hitler’s Religion

10 October 2016

BOOK BY RICHARD WEIKART REGNERY, 2016 352 PP. In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's dystopian tale of Nazi Germany and the... Read More

Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

15 February 2013

In his study of the psychological damage wrought by World War II, historian Paul Fussell details a soldier’s view of death in combat as... Read More

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

20 April 2012

For conservatives, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael is notorious for her comment of astonishment when Richard Nixon won the 1972 presidential election since,... Read More