Going to a museum has always been an experience like going to church. Same reverence, quietude required. Except that at a museum I know what I'm contemplating.
Aging badly, we say, so certain of our contemporary judgment. Hindsight is 20-fucking-20!
Greatest hits: Henrik Pontoppidan, "Lucky Per"; the 2024 series "Shōgun"; the long-awaited second season of…
Greatest Hits: "Triangle of Sadness", "Secrets & Lies", "Shampoo", and the 1989 "Lonesome Dove" series.…
Triumphs: "The Red Shoes" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock"! Flaubert's "Sentimental Education"!
All of the books and films don't amount to much when political terror begins.
The episodes of the romantic novel are sundered, one from the other, but "irradiated" by…