Lipsky spent four years at West Point, watching an eclectic mob of adolescents being transmuted into officers through the pain and discipline of a strange and uniquely American military institution. It's a mesmerizing and powerfully human spectacle; a glimpse into a parallel world, separate and alienated from the civilian reality that depends so deeply on it.
Epic times call for epic art, and nothing moved us more than The Return of the King. Other things we loved: Louis Vuitton, William Boyd and BBC's The Office And to the Atlanta group OutKast, we say "Stank you very much!"