Archive - BordoLines

May 2025

I Forced Myself to Read Jake Tapper’s Book

Don’t believe the gushing reviews from members of the club. It isn’t “King Lear.” It isn’t even decent political history. It allows Trump to emerge…

May 30 •

Bookcase to Screen: For Pure Pleasure, Ten of My Favorite Adaptations

Multiverses, time-traveling, and fancy editing can’t replace a great story and compelling characters. (Note: This stack is loaded with great film clips…

May 25 •

At The Scaffold

On the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s death, an excerpt from my book The Creation of Anne Boleyn.

May 19 •

The Male Id as “Sexual Liberation”: Watching “Last Tango in Paris” in 1973 and 2025

I once loved Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris,” A memoir and new movie based on the life of Maria Schneider had me revisit the film, which I…

May 19 •

My Mother the Adventuress

For Regina Lilian Siegel Klein (1913-1976)

May 11 •

Fact, Fiction, and Anne Boleyn

I love historical novels and films. But I worry about how fragile our compass has become for sorting out fiction from fact.

May 10 •

“Dishy” or Just Trashy? How “Fight” Normalizes Trump, Dumps on Kamala, and Lets the Media Off The Hook For the Disaster of 2024

Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes go for best-seller gold again, but as they did in “Shattered,” with mean-spirited trivia and a shallow narrative.

May 5 •

April 2025

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