Featured Reviews

Rebecca (1938) - Daphne du Maurier  (Grade:A)

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

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Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004) - Derrick A. Bell, Jr  (Grade:B+)

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Christmas at Thompson Hall (1877) - Anthony Trollope  (Grade:A-)

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Hollow (short story) (1982) - Breece D'J Pancake  (Grade:B)

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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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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017) - Timothy Snyder  (Grade:B+)

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991) - Gordon S. Wood  (Grade:A)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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F1; The Movie (2025) - Joseph Kosinski  (Grade:A+)

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Phantom Thread (2017) - Paul Thomas Anderson  (Grade:A-)

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Brothers Judd Daily

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02/03/26:

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was born in New York, NY on February 3, 1894.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was born in Allegheny, PA on February 3, 1874.

Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, GER on February 3, 1809.

James A. Michener was born on February 3, 1907.

Paul Auster (1947-) was born in Newark, NJ on February 3, 1947. Read Orrin's reviews of The Music of Chance (1990) (Grade: A-) and Paul Auster's City of Glass: A Graphic Mystery (1994) (adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli) (Grade: A)

Thomas M. Disch (1940-) was born in Des Moines, IA on February 2, 1940. Read Orrin's review of The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (1998)

James Joyce (1882-1941) was born in Dublin, IRE on February 2, 1882. Read Orrin's reviews of:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)(Grade: F), Ulysses (1918)(F x Googleplex), Finnegan's Wake (1939)(Grade: G) and The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1989)(Bartholomew Gill 1943-)

James Dickey (1925-97) was born on February 2, 1925. Read Orrin's review of Deliverance (1970) (Grade: A+)

Ayn Rand (1905-82) was born on February 2, 1905. Read Orrin's review of Anthem (1946)(Grade: A)

Reynolds Price (1933-) was born in Macon, NC on February 1, 1933

John Ford (1895-) was born in Cape Elizabeth, ME on February 1, 1895. He was recently named one of Brothers Judd Ten Greatest Cultural Figures of the 20th Century.

Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, MO on February 1, 1902. Read Orrin's review of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Grade: B+)

Muriel Spark (1918-) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on February 1, 1918. Read Orrin's review of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)(Grade: D)

Norman Mailer (1923-) was born in Long Branch, NJ on January 31, 1923. Brothers Judd has reviewed several of his books.

John Lukacs (1924-) was born in Budapest, Hungary on January 31, 1924. Read Orrin's review of Five Days in London, May 1940 (1999) (John Lukacs 1924-) (Grade: B)

Zane Grey (1872-1939) was born in Zanesville, OH on January 31, 1872. Read Orrin's review of Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) (Grade: A)

John O'Hara (1905-1970) was born in PA on January 31, 1905. Read Orrin's reviews of Appointment in Samarra (1934)(Grade: A) and BUtterfield 8 (1935)(Grade: B+)

Kenzaburo Oe (1935-), the 1994 Nobel Laureate, was born in Shikoku, Japan on January 31, 1935. Read Orrin's review of A Personal Matter (1969)(Grade: A+)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) was born in Hyde Park, NY on January 30, 1882. Read Orrin's review of Freedom from Fear: The United States, 1929-1945 (1999) (David M. Kennedy)(Grade: A) & No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt(Doris Kearns Goodwin)(C+)

Richard Brautigan (1935-84) was born in Tacoma, WA on January 30, 1935. Read Orrin's review of Trout Fishing in America (1967)