Ted Chiang

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies” (2010): Seeking Expiation

In Denis Villeneuve's 2010 film "Incendies" siblings seek a brother and father never known to deliver letters from their recently…

3 years ago
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read Viewed Consumed | 2020-10

October is a good month to watch horror movies and read scary stories, but I read my scary stories over…

4 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

“Anxiety … Dizziness … Freedom”: Paraself Virtue

Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" considers the ethical effects of the consulation with a paraself, a self…

4 years ago
  • On Literature, Books

“The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling”: Writing on Trial

Writing explores writing in Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," in a story constructed of two…

4 years ago
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read Viewed Consumed |2020-09

Cultural consumption involved George Saunders' consummately misanthropic CivilWarLand, as well as Pygmalion (1938) and The 49th Parallel (1944)

4 years ago