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Cultural Consumption, 2022-Style! Best of!

The best books and films of 2022, some description thereof, as well as a few of the worst.

2022-12-31
Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Jane Eyre: Post-Colonial Christian Zealotry?

Reading "Jane Eyre" for the second time revealed a quite different— quite Christian and not postcolonial—one from what inhabited my memory (and imagination).

2022-12-26
On Literature, Books Reading Journal

“The Silence” by Don DeLillo: Electromagnetic Pulses and Voiceless Narration

Don DeLillo’s "The Silence," is a strange novel featuring an electromagnetic pulse and empty narration

2022-01-29
On Literature, Books Reading Journal

Satire or Misanthropy? “Solar,” by Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan’s 2010 novel “Solar” is a misanthropic retelling of ten years in the life of erstwhile Nobel Prize recipient Michael Beard

2021-05-23
On Literature, Books Reading Journal

Anna Seghers’ “Transit”: Profound Unknowing

In Anna Seghers’ novel “Transit,” no one really knows who the other is. The reader is never certain of who the narrator really is.

2020-12-15
On Literature, Books Reading Journal

Reading Slowly: “War and Peace”

Why reading slowly, especially War and Peace, should be practiced with solicitude, so as to fully appreciate the journey reading is.

2020-08-09
On Literature, Books Faves

Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop”

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

2020-06-11
On Literature, Books Reading Journal

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 19th-century Sicilian noble

2020-04-23
On Literature, Books Reading Journal

Krasnahorkai’s “The Last Wolf”

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

2020-02-26
On Literature, Books Reading Journal

Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”

Why do some works of art age better than others?

2019-12-03
On Literature, Books Reading Journal

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novel

Cultural Consumption, 2022-Style! Best of!

Jane Eyre: Post-Colonial Christian Zealotry?

“The Silence” by Don DeLillo: Electromagnetic Pulses and Voiceless Narration

Satire or Misanthropy? “Solar,” by Ian McEwan

Anna Seghers’ “Transit”: Profound Unknowing

Reading Slowly: “War and Peace”

Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop”

Notes on Lampedusa’s novel “The Leopard”

Krasnahorkai’s “The Last Wolf”

Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”