October is a good enough reason to watch scary movies. Like the vice presidential debate ... or the movie "Terrifier,"…
"The Kremlin Ball" narrates time Malaparte spent in Moscow during the late 1920s and the intellectuals and Soviet elite he…
Greatest hits of September undoubtedly include Curzio Malaparte's unfinished novel "The Kremlin Ball"; they do NOT include watching "Jaws 2"…
Kept reading The Overstory" and should have finished it. Started "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993-99), which has been a…
Going to a museum has always been an experience like going to church. Same reverence, quietude required. Except that at…
Greatest hits: the Netflix Ripley series, "Blood and Wine" with Jack Nicholson, "Geology: A Very Short Introduction." Lowest lows: "The…
Greatest Hits: Everett's "Erasure," Zweig's "Mary, Queen of Scots," "Code Inconnu." Lowest Lows: "S.W.A.T." (2003). Ouch.
During May I consumed so much Stefan Zweig, Nikolai Gogol, but also "Crime Wave" and "The Insider" and even "La…
"The Limey" is essentially a father-daughter story of a very strange sort, in at least two discrete dimensions. Masterful in…
Not so recently acquired: Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart and The Maid of Orleans. Two Historical Plays in One Volume!