Articles by C. Max Magee
April 9, 2011
Sidney Lumet Dies at 86 0
Sidney Lumet, director of 12 Angry Men, Serpico, and many other classic films, has died at 86.
April 9, 2011
Celebrating Beverly Cleary 1
With her 95th birthday approaching, Beverly Cleary gets the profile treatment in the Times. (previously at The Millions: Cleary’s underappreciated memoirs)
April 9, 2011
“It was the perfect literary crime” 0
Amid recent discussion here and elsewhere about what to do about bad reviews, in the Washington Post Chris Bohjalian writes of the time he resisted the temptation to pan a book by the teacher who almost crushed his nascent literary career.
April 7, 2011
The Best Episode of Science Friday Ever? 0
Public radio program Science Friday has quite a lineup on tap this week: “Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog’s new film on the earliest known cave [...]
April 7, 2011
The AOL Layoff Carnage 0
At The Awl, a former AOL freelancer reports on the layoff carnage there in the wake of the HuffPo acquisition.
April 5, 2011
Polish Book Covers 1
An eerie collection of Polish book cover art from the 1970s and 80s.
