David Frum

11.22.24

The Civil War: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

After I expressed some grumbling dissatisfaction with the audiobook version of the first volume of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War, a number of friends urged me to press on to the second, The Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian.

11.22.24

The Civil War: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox

Last week, I at last completed listening to the final volume of Shelby Foote’s civil war trilogy: The Civil War: Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox.

11.22.24

Full Circle

“Very flat country, Poland.” So said long-time NR contributor and new Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski, as we whizzed at 90 miles an hour on the two-lane highway west from Warsaw.

11.22.24

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

What maniac at the Walt Disney Corporation could have had the idea of attempting to transform Victor Hugo’s grim Gothic masterpiece, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, into an animated cartoon?

11.22.24

Fathers and Sons

Some weeks ago, I read an article in a newspaper that contained this striking sentence...

11.22.24

The Canadian Summer

Reviewing Max Hasting’s book about the final year of World War II in Europe, I cited one anecdote that I found both very moving and very funny.

11.22.24

The Complete Roman Army

Oh my gosh, what a cool book is The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy!

11.22.24

The Faithful Departed

Titles matter! I took up Philip Lawler’s The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture in the belief that I would be reading … well, just what the title said.

11.22.24

The Battle for Spain

Somewhere in The Battle for Spain, Anthony Beevor remarks that the Spanish Civil War may be the only conflict in history to have had its history written by the losers.

11.22.24

T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form

The London lawyer Anthony Julius is nick-named “Anthony Genius” in the British tabloids, and no wonder: The man is a prodigy.