January 2021 inaugurated both a new year and (Gott sei Dank!!!) a new president, during which I read and watched…
"The Servant" takes the traditional roles between gentleman and manservant and submits them to great artistic violence.
A glorious night when I just wanted to keep reading: first, 25 pages of Lukas Rieppel's "Assembling the Dinosaur"; then…
Repeatedly not finishing a sentence. Either subject or predicate but not both. Becomes some poetry itself.
Perhaps I began the month of December inauspiciously, insofar as I read/viewed/consumed nothing on the first day of the month…
In Anna Seghers' novel "Transit," no one really knows who the other is. The reader is never certain of who…
The 2016 film "Marauders" is a gunplay and bank robbery story that is not so bad that it's good.
During the month of November what I read and viewed—what I consumed—was less varied and somewhat sparse. In fact, lost…
"Sudden Fear" tells the tale of a playwright that married the wrong man and was almost written out of the…
Calling presentism a prejudice is a little like calling 45 a bad president: It's not strong enough.