In February 2022 I started reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce, "Odyssey", watched "The Killing" (1956) and other things like the…
One of several forthcoming asides on the book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Lead us not into temptation.
"The Killing" makes murder a spectacle, something beautiful, peopled with a group of ne'er-do-wells whose destruction we will undoubtedly enjoy.
Each of books and films lasciviously read and watched (respectively) during the first month of the 2022nd year of our…
Don DeLillo's "The Silence," is a strange novel featuring an electromagnetic pulse and empty narration
Didn't do much mountain biking, but I read and watched "Alien Resurrection," Cynthia Ozick's "Trust," Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1",…
A summary of Cynthia Ozick's "Trust", being the story of a peculiar, nameless narrator seeking the reasons for her lack…
An excerpted passage from the 1966 novel "Trust" by Cynthia Ozick, dripping with the poetry and squalor of Rimbaud.
Was it a sad, bad month, November? I read Athan Theoharis' "Abuse of Power", watched "Once Upon A Time in…
The Turret Two Tour of the USS New Jersey was a moment to reflect on the astounding machinery of war.