The highnotes: The Letter (1940), Hobson's Choice (1954), Stefan Zweig, Henrik Ibsen. The lownotes: The Matrix (1999) and its progency,…
The best books and films of 2022, some description thereof, as well as a few of the worst.
Reading "Jane Eyre" for the second time revealed a quite different— quite Christian and not postcolonial—one from what inhabited my…
Some transcendent moments. In reading Brontë, Borges, Sebald, Masters. Watching "The Getaway" and "Breaking Away". Others, not transcendent even a…
Birthday months are great for watching Antonioni trilogies, Premingers' "In Harm's Way," reading "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The…
Didn't do much mountain biking, but I read and watched "Alien Resurrection," Cynthia Ozick's "Trust," Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1",…
A summary of Cynthia Ozick's "Trust", being the story of a peculiar, nameless narrator seeking the reasons for her lack…
An excerpted passage from the 1966 novel "Trust" by Cynthia Ozick, dripping with the poetry and squalor of Rimbaud.
Was it a sad, bad month, November? I read Athan Theoharis' "Abuse of Power", watched "Once Upon A Time in…
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…