Anthony Lane reviews “The Killer,” David Fincher’s thriller starring Michael Fassbender, and “The Holdovers,” Alexander Payne’s tale of a seventies prep school, starring Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa.
However significant the years during which he was Pope were in the evolution of the Roman Catholic church, Pius himself was more of a passenger than a driver of the engine of history.
Given the headlines, questions, and legal actions Google has faced recently, many folks, including myself, have been wondering when Google's CEO Larry Page would take a more public stance in outlining his vision for the company. Well, today marks a shift of sorts, with the publication of a lenthy blog post from Larry titled, quite…
History is famously full of conflicts celebrated by the victors and forgotten by the losers. But some are ignored on all sides. The Franco-Prussian War is one of the latter, but it is now excavated by Rachel Chrastil's Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe.