Noel Murray's posts

“Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in…

“Neither was their being Jews a mishap or a misfortune or an achievement to be ‘proud’ of. What they were was what…

“It went without saying that Mr. Mawhinney was a Christian, a long-standing member of the great overpowering…

“‘We knew things were bad,’ my father told the friends he immediately sat down to phone when we got home, ‘But not…

Writer, producer, and former The Baltimore Sun crime reporter David Simon spent most of the 21st century’s first…

“Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the day after that…

“I pledged allegiance to the flag of our homeland every morning at school. I sang of its marvels with my classmates…

For much of the past decade, millions of schoolchildren across the United States have had to spend part of their…

For the past two NFL seasons, the greatest show on any given Sunday has been whatever game features either the…

Depending on how the next decade of life on Earth goes, people may one day look back on writer-director Makoto…

It’s become a cliché to say that some actors are so good that they can hold an audience’s attention just by reading…

Let’s begin with the ending.

Last week, I wrote about the phenomenal work Maggie Gyllenhaal has been doing on The Deuce, even as her performance…

Awards like Emmys and Golden Globes are mostly meaningless, and ultimately have little to nothing to do with how a…

In the movie Pulp Fiction, crime boss Marsellus Wallace tries to persuade fading pugilist Butch Coolidge to take a…

Major League Baseball’s infield fly rule isn’t that hard to understand. When there are runners on first and second…

In the 1980s, everything looked like porn. Patrick Nagel posters. Daytime soap operas. Primetime soap operas. Tom…

Over the past few years, the plight of political refugees has been a divisive social issue in nations around the…

Who would’ve guessed that the conscience of The Deuce would be Rudy fuckin’ Pipilo?

The theme song for The Deuce’s third and final season is Blondie’s “Dreaming,” a transcendent New Wave classic from…