• On Literature, Books

Reading Slowly: “War and Peace”

5 years ago

Why reading slowly, especially War and Peace, should be practiced with solicitude, so as to fully appreciate the journey reading…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read Viewed Consumed 2020-07

5 years ago

The books and films that I read and viewed during the month of July 2020, including The Life and Death…

  • On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions

Hither hocus pocus?

5 years ago

On the phrase "hocus pocus," from Marina Warner's essay “Spellbound” on the book Drawing Down The Moon

  • Faves

The Genius of Ozu’s “Good Morning” (1959)

5 years ago

Children in Good Morning protest social mores because they fail to appreciate the rules governing the relations of families and…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read Viewed Consumed 2020-06

5 years ago

George Floyd was killed | among twenty snowy mountains | the only moving thing was the eye of the blackbird…

  • Faves

What is a flâneur?

5 years ago

An explanation of the cryptic subtitle of my site, namely, that I am an erstwhile flâneur.

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

Is Writing About Bad Movies a Waste?

5 years ago

In which I performatively answer the question with reference to an episode of The Mandalorian, whether one should write about…

  • On Literature, Books

Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop”

5 years ago

A novel of religious devotion genuinely spiritual without falling into the mirthless repetition of ecclesiastical doctrine

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read Viewed Consumed 2020-05

5 years ago

During the unhappy month of May 2020 I read and viewed perhaps less than I have for some time because…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read Viewed Consumed 2020-04

5 years ago

ONE MAN testifies to his unquenchable virility by spending late hours in bed reading and watching movies.