“Modern Romance” by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg Aziz Ansari, probably best known for his…
Judiciously Reviewed
Turandot
As a first-time operagoer, I did not know what to expect when I bought a…
Booked: Post-Finals Treats
Personally, I find that a good book is the best way to reward myself after…
Booked: Frozen February Reads
The frigid temperatures have trapped me inside with a big pile stack of good books.…
Tasting Notes: A Tour of the Southern Rhône
Photos Provided by Domaine de Beaurenard Appearing before a room of sixty-five law students, eighth generation wine…
Tasting Notes: Pisticci – An Adventurous Selection of Italian Wines
Nelson Hua / Morningside Muckraker Passing through the garden-level entrance of Pisticci on Amsterdam and…
Booked: Winter Break Reads
While we’re heading into finals crunch time, here are a few books to put on…
The A. Lauder Collection: Cubism Celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
[metaslider id=3311] © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris From October…
Booked: October 2014 Trick or (t)Reads
“City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran” by Ramita…
Booked: Back to School Picks
Before things get too substantive in your classes, here are a few great reads to…
Booked: Going Places with End of Summer Reads
Just like the poster in my middle-school library proclaimed, “Reading Takes You Places.” Whether you’re…
A Ride Off the Beaten Tracks: “Snowpiercer”
Dystopias, like cupcakes, Brooklyn, and online lists, are very much in vogue at the…
The 2L Summer Socialite’s Guide to Big Law
I don’t really have any interest in working at a firm. Like, at all. When…
On Daron Aronofsky’s “Noah”
Movies almost never stand up to the books on which they are based. How much…
Movie Guide: The Tribeca Film Festival Edition
“Maravilla,” dir. Juan Pablo Cadaveira On June 4 at Madison Square Garden, Middleweight boxer Sergio…
Booked: The Muckraker Summer Reading List
For a lot of law students, summer is the only time we can really sink…
The Muckraker’s March Movie Guide
Everything Is Awesome: The LEGO Movie When was the last time you left the theater,…
Booked: The Muckraker’s March Picks
“The Martian” by Andy Weir (Crown) I had my reviews lined up for this month…
Album Reviews: Past, Present, and Future
Music takes up a large part of my day – I listen to music in…
A Discussion with Professor Robert A. Ferguson about “Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment”
Professor Robert Ferguson’s latest book, out this month from Harvard University Press, gets to the root of why America punishes more heavily than its other first-world counterparts.
Best Unknown Albums of 2013
I recently compiled a list of my favorite albums from the last year or so. …
A Wimp’s Failed Review: Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep
“Doctor Sleep” by Stephen King (Scribner) I’ve been taking my book-reviewing post very seriously, searching for…
Booked: February Favorites
“Eleanor & Park“ by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Press) Reading a novel after several intense hours…
Theater: A Trip through the Sausage Factory
“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are…
The Long Con: American Hustle & The Wolf of Wall Street
David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” begins with a grotesquerie. It’s a quiet moment of vanity and…
Reviewed: Final Judgment on Three Oscar Contenders
“I’m sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am. I tried. I think you would all agree that I tried. To be true, to be strong, to be kind, to love, to be right. But I wasn’t.” He pauses for a beat, then declares, “All is lost.” That is, quite deliberately and quite magnificently, the most you’ll hear out of Robert Redford for the next 100 or so minutes.
Booked: The Muckraker’s Winter Reading List
Songs of Willow Frost, by Jamie Ford (Random House) William Eng, a Chinese American orphan in Depression-era…