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BOOKS
A Little History of the World (1935), by E. H. Gombrich
A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Match Ever Played (2009), by Marshall Jon Fischer
Act of Congress (2013), By Robert G. Kaiser
All The Devils Are Here (2011), by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
Bad Money (2008), by Kevin Phillips
Bloodlands (2010), by Timothy Snyder
Bright-Sided (2009), by Barbara Ehrenreich
Churchill (2009), by Paul Johnson
Dreams of Earth and Sky (2015), by Freeman Dyson
Enlightening Letters 1946-1960 (2009), by Isaiah Berlin
Finishing the Hat (2010), By Stephen Sondheim
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (2018), by Michael Wolff
Frank (2015), by Barney Frank
George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), by John Lewis Gaddis
God’s Brain (2010), by Lionel Tiger and Michael McGuire
Gone Girl (2012), by Gillian Flynn
Hillbilly Elegy (2016), by J. D. Vance
Hitch-22 (2010), by Christopher Hitchens
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (2003), by Thomas C. Foster
In the Garden of Beasts (2011), by Erik Larson
In the Year of the Flood (2009), by Margaret Atwood
Inherent Vice (2009), By Thomas Pynchon
Intelligence Wars (2004), by Thomas Powers
Isaiah Berlin: Letters 1928 – 1946 (2004)
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Time of Charlie Parker (2013), by Stanley Crouch
Latest Readings (2015), By Clive James
Letters from Oxford (2006), by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Levels of the Game (1969), by John McPhee
Miracles of Life (2008), By J.G. Ballard
Monster (1993), by Sanyika Shakur
Morte d’Urban (1962), by J.F. Powers; Suitable Accomodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J.F. Powers, 1942 – 1963 (2013), edited by Katherine A. Powers
Nudge (2008); Postcript to Nudge: “November 2008” (2009 Edition), By Richard H. Thaler and Cass Sunstein
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017), by Timothy Snyder
Our Revolution (2016), By Bernie Sanders
Prague Winter (2012), by Madeleine Albright
Protecting Capitalism Case by Case (2013), by Eliot Spitzer
Rafa (2011), by John Carlin and Rafael Nadal
Raymond Chandler
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (2011), by Jane McGonigal
Reckless (2009), By Byron Dorgan
Salvage the Bones (2011), by Jesmyn Ward
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs (1989), by John Updike
Solar (2010), by Ian McEwan
Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed (2009), By Greg Easterbrook
Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1966), by Vladimir Nabokov
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Steve Jobs (2011), by Walter Isaacson
Strangers on a Train (1950), By Patricia Highsmith
String Theory (2016), by David Foster Wallace; Tennis Is My Racket (1949), by Bobby Riggs
Sweet Tooth (2012), By Ian McEwan
Television is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age (2015), by Michael Wolff
Terrorist (2006), by John Updike
The Age of Turbulence (2007); Epilog (2008), by Alan Greenspan
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined (2011), by Stephen Pinker
The Big Con (1940), by David W. Maurer
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), by Junot Diaz
The Castle in the Forest (2007), by Norman Mailer
The Children Act (2014), by Ian McEwan
The Crossing: A Bosch Novel (2015), by Michael Connelly
The Girl on the Train (2015), By Paula Hawkins
The Golden House (2017), by Salman Rushdie
The Grand Design (2010), by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
The Great Gatsby (1925- ), by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009), by Richard Dawkins
The Grownup (2014), by Gillian Flynn
The Letters of Noel Coward (2007)
The Long Fall (2009), Known to Evil (2011), When the Thrill is Gone (2011), by Walter Mosley
The Lowland (2014), By Jhumpa Lahiri
The Marriage Plot (2011), by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Mars Room (2018), by Rachel Kushner
The Mueller Report (2019)
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (2011), By Evgeny Morozov
The Physics of the Future (2011), By Michio Kaku
The Post-American World (2008, New Edition 2009), by Fareed Zakaria
The Pregnant Widow (2010), By Martin Amis
The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century (2007), by Alex Ross
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014), by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
The Shallows (2010), By Nicholas Carr
The Society of Mind (1988), by Marvin Minsky
The Sympathizer (2015), By Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Whites (2015), By Richard Price (Writing as Harry Brandt)
This Time is Different (2009), by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff; The Sellout (2009), by Charles Gasparino
Three Disappointments
Ulysses (1922), Finnegan’s Wake (1939), by James Joyce
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner (2013)
Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom
Vigilante (2011), by Stephen J. Cannell
War and Decision (2009), by Douglas Feith
Zero K (2016), By Don DeLillo
Jaws (1975)
Moby-Dick or the White Whale (1851)
MOVIES
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
8mm (1999)
99 Homes (2015)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946); The Big Country (1958); Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951); St. Ives (1976); Silver Streak (1976); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
A Most Violent Year (2014)
A Star Is Born (2018)
American Sniper (2014)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
Bernard and Doris (2006)
Beyond the Gates (2005)
Birdman (2014)
Black Swan (2010)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Boyhood (2014)
Bullitt (1968)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Capote (2005)
Chasing Madoff (2011)
Chinatown (1974), Erin Brockovich (2001)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Contagion (2011)
Crazy Heart (2009)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Deja Vu (2006), Premonition (2007)
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Dinner Rush (2000)
Doubt (2008)
Dr. Strangelove (1964) — Fiftieth Anniversary
Elegy (2008); The Dying Animal, by Philip Roth (2001)
Force of Arms (1951)
Four I’ve Yet To See
Frantic (1988), Anna Kirenina (1935)
From Here To Eternity (1953)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Gone Girl (2014)
Grand Piano (2013)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Hell or High Water (2016)
Hitchcock (2012)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
IL Generale Della Rovere (1959)
Into the Wild (2007)
Ironman (2009)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Lady Bird (2017)
Lincoln (2012)
Loving (2016)
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Margin Call (2011)
Meryl Streep
Midnight in Paris (2010)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
Molly’s Game (2017)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)
Night Crawlers (2014), Fury (2014), Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Phantom Thread (2017)
Philip D’Antoni’s Trilogy
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Ripley’s Game (2002)
Shane (1953)
Shattered Glass (2003)
Slumdog Millionaire (2010)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Spotlight (2015)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
The Big Short (2015)
The Children Act (2017)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Debt (2011)
The Descendants (2011)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
The Great Gatsby (2013)
The Hospital (1971)
The Hustler (1961)
The Ipcress File (1965)
The Iron Lady (2011)
The Judge (2014), Kill the Messenger (2014), The Equalizer (2014), The Hundred Foot Journey (2014)
The King’s Speech (2010)
The Kite Runner (2007)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Man in the High Castle (2015)
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
The Paradine Case (1947); Get Carter (1971)
The Queen (2006)
The Reader (2008)
The Shape of Water (2017)
The Theory of Everything (2014)
The Tree of Life (2011)
The Wife (2017)
Three Rules for Assessing Movies; Life Itself (2014)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Top Hat (1935)
Trumbo (2015), The Martian (2015), Secret In Their Eyes (2015)
Up in the Air (2009)
Valkyrie (2008)
Vice (2018)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Hurt Locker (2008)
Murray Hamilton, Peerless Character actor in the Movies
OTHER CULTURE
Albert Clarkson, Featured Barnes & Noble Author in Other Science Fiction Categories
Analysis of Federer’s Resurgence in his Thirties, by Abdul al-Hamamsy
Barnstormers (2016)
Bill Evans: “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
Bill Evans: Solo Piano Version Of The Music Theme From The Bad And The Beautiful (1977)
Breaking Bad (2007 – 2013)
Christmas with Dexter Gordon
Clarkson’s Favorite 19th-21st Century Novels
Clarkson’s Top Movies; Top Television Shows; Top Movie Scores
Clarkson’s Top-Rated Books, 2000-2018
How to Open a Movie
KVMH Classics Station
Lou Levy
Rafael Nadal: Blameless Disruptor of Tennis
Ray Bowers’s Remembrance Of Tennis Pros In Olden Days
Sanjay Gupta
Tennis Colorists’ Psyward (2010)
Tennis From the Archives
Tennis Reflections from Abdel al Hamamsy: Federer, Deity; Djokovic, Rescuer; Nadal, Iconoclast
The Rockford Files (1974-80)
The Short Happy Life of Eliot Spitzer as TV News Journalist
Upstairs Downstairs (1971), The Remains of the Day (1993)
How to Open a Movie
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