Reading "Jane Eyre" for the second time revealed a quite different— quite Christian and not postcolonial—one from what inhabited my…
Some transcendent moments. In reading Brontë, Borges, Sebald, Masters. Watching "The Getaway" and "Breaking Away". Others, not transcendent even a…
Realism lite, how film and television suggest serious violence without actually including it, is exemplified in the 1988 buddy film…
Three curiosities about the lovely 2015 Ryusuke Hamaguchi film about female friendship, "Happy Hour"
From the "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters, excerpts and commentary on the experience of its reading
Started reading W.G. Sebald, for the first time. Who turned me to "The Hunter Gracchus," by Dr. K. Also, Edgar…
A passage from Henry James' novel "An International Episode" displays the tyranny of the imagination
Shirley Jackson's "Flower Garden" will mystify readers expecting horror, but civil discord is in no short supply
Greatest hits of September: "Lord of the Rings," "We Are the Best!" (2013), "The Hunt" (1966)—and I finished James Joyce's…
Birthday months are great for watching Antonioni trilogies, Premingers' "In Harm's Way," reading "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The…