OLM Favorites: The Cute One Redux
/A sprawling new biography looks at both the quotidian day to day life and the pivotal music of the "cute" Beatle, Paul McCartney.
Read MoreRacing Toward Mytilene
/Two and a half millennia ago, a war between Athens and Sparta drove Greek civilization to its knees. A new book explores what demagogues and democracies can teach us about the fall of nations.
Read MoreTwilight Cowboys
/Once upon a time, Westerns were a staple of American fiction. Now they've all but disappeared. Zach Rabiroff asks why cowboys rode off into the sunset.
Read MoreOrestes in Spandex
/Fifty years ago, a daring writer and a quirky artist created an offbeat character who became one of the most famous superheroes in the world. A look at the early days of Spider-Man.
Read More“The Strangest Teens of All”
/The venerable concept of the superhero team dates back to 1940, but in 1975 Marvel Comics introduced a new team of X-Men - and an empire was born.
Read MoreA Moon, A Girl … Romance!
/Sure, we all know Superman, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man - but what about the also-rans? Who played the Captain and Tennille to the Avengers' Sonny and Cher? Zach Rabiroff looks at the heroes who didn't quite make the prime-time cut.
Read MoreProtean Things
/Hilary Mantel's best-selling Tudor novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, have made their way to the stage on the expert handling of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Zach Rabiroff had front row center.
Read MoreLeviathan in the Offing
/Ron Howard's adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling In the Heart of the Sea will soon appear, but even the trailers raise rich questions: Why does this story still have the power to fascinate? A Moby-Dick fan ponders.
Read More"Why, It's I!"
/Any new translation of a classic like Anna Kareninainevitably raises an awkward question: what was wrong with all the old translations? Debut writer Zach Rabiroff takes it line-by-line
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