Greatest reading and watching hits of June 2023 included "Men", "Sword of Doom", "Heat", "Merry Wives of Windsor", and "The…
"An Ideal Craftsman" follows a young boy down to the larder, happening upon a crime scene.
Detailing the purchase of a less puerile, more dignified Taschen volume collecting the etchings of Piranesi, the article and exhibit…
Reading 15th- and 16th-century lit and watching contemporary, 21st-century film. Greatest hits: Heat (1995), Montaigne, Shakespeare (immer wieder).
Not long ago I ordered "Strata: William Smith's Geological Maps" lighting a fire of memory and reflection
Rereading Shakespeare, Borges; then reading stories by Walter de la Mare. Re-watching two films by David Lynch—neither being "Blue Velvet"…
A few reflections on the discovery of 16th-century poet Robert Southwell, apparently an exemplar of English Metaphysical Poetry.
Nothing that meticulous about it. Finished at least one book. Mostly underwhelming days.
Ari Aster's debut feature film Hereditary (2018) plays on the devilish ambiguity articulating the affinity between the histories of demonic…
The fight for my consciousness took place on the page and on the screen, through reading and viewing. Was bloody.