In Anna Seghers' novel "Transit," no one really knows who the other is. The reader is never certain of who…
George Saunders' short story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was born in a minimum security prison in central Pennysylvania
A novel of religious devotion genuinely spiritual without falling into the mirthless repetition of ecclesiastical doctrine
Idle reflections on The Leopard, by Giuseppe de Lampedusa, which narrates several events in the life and afterlife of a…
A reading journal entry on Lázló Krasnahorkai's "book" The Last Wolf, which is really two small books.
Single sentence exegesis.
Reflections on the short story collection In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
Reading journal from early in the year 2020, when COVID was hitting China but just a dirty word in the…
The January 2010 reading journal addresses In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Our Idiot Brother, Filmed Thought,…
"Clearly you are not a bowler": Can film do philosophy? Can philosophy do film?