• On Literature, Books

200111: Reading Journal

5 years ago

Reading journal from early in the year 2020, when COVID was hitting China but just a dirty word in the…

  • On Literature, Books

200107: Reading Journal

5 years ago

The January 2010 reading journal addresses In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Our Idiot Brother, Filmed Thought,…

  • Faves

Reading the News? 3 Reasons to Stop

5 years ago

Civic responsibility entails reading the news regularly, to keep abreast of the world's turnings. But does this practice actually improve…

  • On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions

Does Philosophy Do Film?

5 years ago

"Clearly you are not a bowler": Can film do philosophy? Can philosophy do film?

  • Faves

Only Boredom Can Save Photography Now

5 years ago

Photography is under siege by the smartphone, the device that has made everyone a photographer while equally rendering all unable…

  • Idle Reflections

Why Hamilton is Great

6 years ago

Finally some explanations why this play is so important!

  • On Literature, Books

Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”

6 years ago

Why do some works of art age better than others?

  • On Literature, Books

Patricia Highsmith’s “Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes”

6 years ago

The promise of unnatural catastrophes turns out not to be catastrophic nor unnatural enough

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

Uncertain reflections on the Coen Brothers’ misanthropy

10 years ago

Reflection on David Denby's critique of the Coen brothers' consistent misanthropy

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

“Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1959), Part 1

11 years ago

Bodies impersonal but affective are instruments of memory.