• Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

May 2021 Reading and Viewing: Glorious Consumption, Indeed

4 years ago

Any month (like May) that includes a viewing of "Miller's Crossing" and a reading of Schiller's "Don Carlos" is a…

  • On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions

Fred Hyatt: Not Enough Technology Pessimism!

4 years ago

A spirited response enjoining MORE pessimism to Fred Hyatt's Washington Post editorial on technology and democracy

  • On Literature, Books

Satire or Misanthropy? “Solar,” by Ian McEwan

4 years ago

Ian McEwan's 2010 novel "Solar" is a misanthropic retelling of ten years in the life of erstwhile Nobel Prize recipient…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read and Viewed: April 2021

4 years ago

April truly was the cruellest month, but only because I read not a word of T.S. Eliot.

  • Viewing Journal

Joseph Losey’s “Accident” (1967): Elliptical yet fascinating

4 years ago

"Accident" narrates the sexual and professional tensions between an Oxford philosophy professor, his colleague, and his students, in events leading…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read and Watched: March 2021

4 years ago

Black history month extended 60 days, at least, reading through Mary Shelley and seeing my first Dick Powell film ...

  • On Literature, Books

Affecting Song and W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Souls of Black Folk”

4 years ago

Each chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk" begins with an excerpt of verse and a few…

  • Reading Journal

Harriet Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”

4 years ago

Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" tells of her life in and escape from the 'Demon…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read, Viewed: Black History Month 2021

4 years ago

What I read and viewed during February, the month we devote in the land of freedom to Black History, in…

  • Reading Journal

“Up From Slavery”: Booker T. Washington’s words

4 years ago

Booker T. Washington's "Up From Slavery" promotes a vocational training for blacks imbued with Christian virtue. Is W.E.B. Du Bois'…