Featured Reviews

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

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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997) - Pauline Maier  (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:
08/20/26:

Isaac Hayes (1942-), the Black Moses of Soul, was born in Covington, TN on August 20, 1942. Brothers Judd especially recommends Live At The Sahara Tahoe.

H. P. (Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was born in Providence, RI on August 20, 1890. Read Orrin's review of At the Mountains of Madness (1931) (Grade: B+)

Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) was born in North Bend, OH on August 20, 1833.

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/critic/translator and winner of Nobel Prize 1959, Aug. 20, 1901 - 1968

Orville Wright (1871-1948) was born in Dayton OH on August 19, 1871. The 19th is celebrated as Aviation Day in his honor.

Ogden Nash (1902-71) was born in Rye, NY on August 19, 1902. Check out a nice page of his verse.

James Gould Cozzens (1903-78) was born in Chicago, IL on August 19, 1903. Brothers Judd recommends his Pulitzer Prize winning novel of WWII, Guard of Honor (1949)

Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) was born in Charlottsville, VA on August 18, 1774. Read Orrin's review of Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996)(Stephen E. Ambrose) (Grade: A-)

V.S. [Vidiadhar) Surajprasad] Naipaul (1932-) was born in Trinidad on August 17, 1932. Read Orrin's reviews of A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) (Grade: B-) and A Bend in the River (1979) (Grade: C)

Davy Crockett (1786-1836) was born in Eastern TN on August 17, 1786; of course, he died at the Alamo. One of the saddest days of my life was when a kid threw my coonskin cap in our local brook in 2nd Grade.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), who began the back to Africa movement, was born in St. Ann's Bay , Jamaica on August 17, 1887.

Maureen O'Hara (1920-) was born in Dublin, IRE on August 17, 1920. Hollywood's all time most fabulous babe, she appears in numerous great movies including: The Quiet Man (1952), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was born in Andernach, GER on August 16, 1920.

Menachem Begin (1913-92) was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia on August 16, 1913. He and Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.

Ted Hughes (1930-98) was born in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, ENG on August 16, 1930. Read Orrin's review of The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights (1968) (Grade: B+)

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was born in Ajaccio, Corsica on August 15, 1769. Brothers Judd recommends the biography Napoleon Bonaparte by Alan Schom.

Robert Bolt (1924-95) was born in Manchester, ENG on August 15, 1924. Read Orrin's review ofA Man for All Seasons (1960)(Grade: A+)

Steve Martin (1945-) was born in Waco TX on August 14, 1945. Read Orrin's review of Shopgirl: A Novella (2000) (Grade: C)

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born in London, ENG on August 13, 1899. By any measure, he is one of the great movie directors of all time, Brothers Judd especially recommends: Vertigo and The 39 Steps, both available at Amazon's Hitchcock Centennial site.

[William] Ben Hogan (1912-97) was born in Stephenville, TX on August 13, 1912. Read Orrin's review of Power Golf (1948)