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September 2021

September 01, 2021

Like It’s My Jōb: Short movie reviews

Raging Bull: I watched this rise-and-fall boxer epic because Victor loves it so much. And...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Normal Books for Mammals: 2020 Year’s Best

Nonfiction top 10: 10. Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, eds. Sticking It to the Man:...

December 28, 2020

I Used to Live Here: 2020 Revisits, In Retrospect

For a few years I've been doing this thing where I assign themes to each...

July 2020

July 06, 2020

“Don’t Hide from the Sins of Saint Louis”

I'm in America: I will pour forth tears until like a river they reach Unto...

April 2020

April 06, 2020

“But Where Is the Lamb?”: Several Millennia of Reflections on the Binding of Isaac

When my nephew was bar mitzvah, he chose (!) as his Torah portion the Akedah,...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

Raissa Maritain : Souffrance :: me : Sleaziness

Yesterday I finished Brenna Moore's Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

Medieval Eucharistic Piety, And My Own: They Recognized Him in the Breaking of the Bread

Alongside the Crucifixion, the Eucharist--and specifically the Real Presence, the literal transformation of the bread...

February 2019

February 08, 2019

I Believe the Correct Term Is “Worlds War II”: Short movie & book reviews on a theme

Arts and entertainments from four nations caught in the catastrophe of the century of progress....

January 2019

January 20, 2019

Desert Hearts: I watch “The Jewish Cardinal”

Lord, if this is how You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

Three Fictional Retellings of Violent Christian History

Two of them are good. One of them is not good! ...Plus bonus Pope Emeritus...

April 2018

April 28, 2018

God and Other Strangers: Short movie reviews

Best one first! Ushpizin: A poor, childless Orthodox Jewish couple in Jerusalem have no idea...

April 16, 2018

“The Naked Emperors”: I’m at the University Bookman

reviewing a recent book on the German 1890s through the rise of the Nazis: Martin...

January 2018

January 12, 2018

Off-Key in the Canticle: Some scattered notes on “post-liberal” order

On Wednesday I went to a discussion at the Catholic Information Center here in DC,...

July 2017

July 05, 2017

“The Fading Shadow of the Habsburgs”: Peter Berger

with a lovely tribute. From 2011, but I just found it via people reminiscing about...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

99 Dreams I Have Had, Every One a Red Heifer: I read “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”

So I finally read Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and in spite of...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

The Only Song in the World: Short movie notes

In order of when I saw them, so this will get whiplashy. Me Without You:...

July 25, 2016

I Revisit Saul Bellow’s “Ravelstein,” A 2000 Novel About Love and Tenderness–And the Coming Crackup of the GOP

here you go: Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the last years of philosopher-provocateur...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

Which Films Show the “10 Obscure Gospel Moments Most Jesus Films Miss”: Peter Chattaway

with some excellent service journalism at Christianity Today: Ten years ago, I compiled a list...

September 2015

September 06, 2015

It Always Rains on Ben Affleck: Short Movie Reviews

The Leopard: Burt Lancaster is the patriarch of an aristocratic Sicilian family whose role in...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

“Up Close”: Rabbi Ayelet Cohen and Me on The Jewish Channel

interviewalicious! and podcast version etc here

March 02, 2015

Voices from the Fire: Medieval Jewish Martyr Laments

Part of my Lenten reading was Susan L. Einbinder's Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

“The Dead Hand of the Past”: I Review “Bad Jews”

at Studio Theatre: Jaroslav Pelikan declared, “Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Sister and Stranger: “Ida,” A Jewish Nun in a Haunted Poland

Ida, a contemporary black-and-white movie now playing at the E St Cinema & Bethesda Row...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

“The Passover Sandwich”: NPR

celebrates: Why is this Sandwich Monday different from all other Sandwich Mondays? In honor of...

April 12, 2014

“Passover Cocktails for Each of the Ten Plagues”

I am just a fountain of good taste: Plague 1: Blood Cocktail: Red Nile The...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

“God’s Away on Business” in Hebrew

I like this on its own merits, as well as for its high concept. Via...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Objects in the World Are Words Spoken By God

Poet Scott Cairns talks about something adjacent to an element of my own conversion--and, like...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

“Sorry for (Communist) Partying”: I review “After the Revolution”

at AmCon: The engine which runs “After the Revolution,” a play by Amy Herzog that...

April 2013

April 02, 2013

What I Learned from Being a Christmas-and-Easter Jew

'Tis the season. I went to my first Easter morning Mass ever this year, and...

March 2013

March 05, 2013

“The Novel of Belief and Jewish-American Demography”

Two of my obsessions together at last! ...The most compelling characters in Zoe Heller’s The...