Featured Reviews

TheTuber (essay) (2009) - Wells Tower  (Grade:A)

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Theo of Golden (2023) - Allen Levi  (Grade:A+)

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The Interrogative Mood: a Novel? (2009) - Padgett Powell  (Grade:B+)

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Whalefall: A Novel (2023) - Daniel Kraus  (Grade:C)

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2BR02B (short story) (1962) - Kurt Vonnegut  (Grade:A-)

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The Unquiet Sleep (1962) - William Haggard  (Grade:B+)

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The Ballad of Mulan (6th Century) - Unknown Unknown  (Grade:A)

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The Wind in the Willows (1908) - Kenneth Grahame  (Grade:A+)

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018) - Patrick Raden Keefe  (Grade:A-)

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Come Back Dead (1997) - Terence Faherty  (Grade:B+)

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The Hawaiian Cult that raised Tulsi Gabbard (with Christine Gralow) [Podcast] (2026) - Christine Gralow  (Grade:B)

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Pay-Off in Blood (1962) - Brett Halliday  (Grade:B)

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The Odyssey (2017) - Emily Wilson  (Grade:A+)

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A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) (2021) - Ferenc Horcher  (Grade:A-)

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One Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen (essay) (2000) - Anthony Bourdain  (Grade:B+)

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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997) - Pauline Maier  (Grade:B+)

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Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey  (Grade:B)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) - Steven Spielberg  (Grade:C-)

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BEST CONSERVATIVE FILMS:
Andrei Rublev (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky  (Grade:A)

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Strictly Ballroom (1992) - Baz Luhrmann  (Grade:A+)

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It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Lloyd Bacon  (Grade:B)

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A Man Escaped (or The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth) [Un condamnéà mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle oùil veut] (1956) - Robert Bresson  (Grade:A+)

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The Apostle (1997) - Robert Duvall  (Grade:A)

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Brothers Judd Daily

Brothers Judd QuasiDaily Bookmarks:
09/09/26:

James Hilton (1900-1954) was born in Lancashire, ENG on September 9, 1900. Read Orrin's review of Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (1934)(Grade: A+) and Lost Horizon (1933)(Grade: A)

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in Tula Province, Russia on September 9, 1828. Read his Confession online.

William Bligh (1754-1817) was born on September 9, 1754. See Orrin's review of Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power, and Theatre on the Bounty (1992)(Greg Dening) (Grade: A-)

Otis Redding (1941-67) was born in Dawson, GA on September 9, 1941. Brothers Judd recommends Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology

Ann Beattie (1947-) was born in Washington, D.C., on September 8, 1947. Read Orrin's review of Love Always (1985)(Grade: A)

Sid Caesar (1922-) was born in Yonkers, NY on September 8, 1922. Brothers Judd recommends his fine autobiography, Where Have I Been?

Jimmie Rodgers "The Singing Brakeman" (1897-1933) was born in Meridian, MS on September 8, 1897. Brothers Judd recommends The Essential Jimmie Rodgers.

Marilyn Durham (1930-) was born in Evansville, IN on September 8, 1930. Read Orrin's review of The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1972) (Marilyn Durham 1930-) (Grade: B+)

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) was born on September 8, 1828. He was perhaps the greatest non-professional soldier in U.S. history, he won the Congressional Medal of Honor at the Battle of Gettysburg. Read Orrin's review of The Killer Angels (1974)(Michael Shaara) (Grade: A+)

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was born in Greenwich, ENG on September 7, 1533. Daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn, she ruled from 1558 to 1603.

Grandma "Anna Maria" Moses (1860-1961) was born in Greenwich, NY on September 7, 1860.

Elia Kazan (1909-) was born in Constaninople, Turkey on September 7, 1909. His great movie On the Waterfront (1954) is an allegory for his own decision to fight evil by testifying against fellow communists.

Sonny Rollins (1930-) was born in New York City, NY on September 7, 1930. Dryfoos recommends Saxophone Colossus

Charles Harden "Buddy" Holly (1936-59) was born in Lubbock, TX on September 7, 1936. Of course, February 2, 1959 was "the Day the Music Died". Brothers Judd recommends The Buddy Holly Collection, which has just about everything they ever did.

Joe Klein (1946-) was born in New York, NY on September 7, 1946. Read Orrin's review of Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics (1996)(Anonymous aka Joe Klein) (Grade: A-)

Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), proof that all rules have exceptions, was born in France on September 6, 1757.

On September 6, 1936, Beryl Markham became the first person to fly the Atlantic solo from East to West. Read Orrin's review of her great memoir, West With the Night (1941) (Beryl Markham 1902-1986) (Grade: A+)

On September 6, 1901, PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency upon McKinley's death 8 days later.

Richard Wright (1908-60) was born in Natchez, MS on September 4, 1908. Read Orrin's review of Native Son (1940)(Grade: C+).