Reading Journal

  • On Literature, Books

Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop”

A novel of religious devotion genuinely spiritual without falling into the mirthless repetition of ecclesiastical doctrine

4 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

Notes on Lampedusa’s novel “The Leopard”

Idle reflections on The Leopard, by Giuseppe de Lampedusa, which narrates several events in the life and afterlife of a…

5 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

Krasnahorkai’s “The Last Wolf”

A reading journal entry on Lázló Krasnahorkai's "book" The Last Wolf, which is really two small books.

5 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

Captivating corruption: Single sentence exegesis

Single sentence exegesis.

5 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

William H. Gass’ “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country”

Reflections on the short story collection In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass

5 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

200111: Reading Journal

Reading journal from early in the year 2020, when COVID was hitting China but just a dirty word in the…

5 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

200107: Reading Journal

The January 2010 reading journal addresses In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Our Idiot Brother, Filmed Thought,…

5 years ago
  • On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions

Does Philosophy Do Film?

"Clearly you are not a bowler": Can film do philosophy? Can philosophy do film?

5 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”

Why do some works of art age better than others?

5 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

Patricia Highsmith’s “Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes”

The promise of unnatural catastrophes turns out not to be catastrophic nor unnatural enough

5 years ago