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.
Ruminations on Cynthia Ozick's knotty, profound prose counterposed to some armchair commentary on Tom Hanks' eminently forgettable appearance on the…
When you begin the month with a film like "Incendies," it's downhill for the remaining 30 days. Luckily I started…
In Denis Villeneuve's 2010 film "Incendies" siblings seek a brother and father never known to deliver letters from their recently…
During September I finished reading "Shadow of the Torturer" a short story by Adalbert Stifter, luminary of 19th century German…
"Forbidden Games" (1952) tells a story of how children, uninitiated in the rituals of mourning, recognize the loss of those…
Moments of grace: finishing Lois Lowry's "Number the Stars," Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome", and viewing again the 2000 film "Sexy…
What I read—James. M Cain, Galileo—was more memorable than what I viewed—"The Glory Stompers," "Marnie"—during the month of July. The…
The culture of the exotic, fascinating underworld thrills us in "John Wick," not merely the well-choreographed gun-fu.