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The Frictionless Triumphs of “She Said”

“All the President’s Men,” the ur-text of newspaper dramas, depicts a profession that looks like spycraft. The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, ply a trade that bristles with Cold War-era…

Serenity Amid Disaster in “The Flying Sailor”

On the morning of December 6, 1917, the citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia, witnessed the largest and most destructive man-made explosion the world had seen to that day. The S.S. Imo, a Norwegian vessel, was heading out of the Bedford…