On the surface, "The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness", is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo". This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative phi...

From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, "West Side Story" is nothing less than an American touchstone – an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of pos...