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May 2020

May 12, 2020

Order Is Chaos: “Sticking It to the Man” and the Pulp Revolution

I Are The Mutants: The standard story of the postwar media landscape centers on the...

August 2019

August 26, 2019

Salo 2: Salo Harder

Some notes and quotations I had to leave out of my intro-to-Salo article due to...

October 2018

October 26, 2018

From “The Leopard” to “Sword of Honour”: An essay in descents

[my apologies, I've removed this post as I work on it for publication]

July 2018

July 08, 2018

Is Recovery Anti-Literary? I review the new Leslie Jamison memoir/literary analysis

for AmCon: When Leslie Jamison realized she had to quit drinking, she was also giving...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

A Great New Art Film About the Childhood of Joan of Arc

which I review for the American Interest: Many of our most formative experiences—the extremes of...

January 2018

January 09, 2018

“Slapstick Tragedy”: I review “I, Tonya”

at First Things. And I did an extended twitter thread of notes, outtakes, and skating...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

“Save Our Slums”: I read Alan Moore’s JERUSALEM

for Modern Age: Alan Moore lives in the past, and who can blame him? The...

September 2017

September 19, 2017

This Be the Horse: I write about “BoJack Horseman” some more

for America: Last week was the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, and in his...

July 2017

July 12, 2017

So Far from God, So Close to “Miami Vice”

So for reasons best known to my confessor, I decided to watch the premiere of...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Against Air Conditioning: Aesthetics Finally Have a Say at the Washington Post!

This piece covers a surprisingly wide range of arguments, from film noir to cost savings...

August 11, 2016

A Long Summer: Movie notes

In the order I saw them. Saving the best for last. Hush: Home-invasion horror centering...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

From Saul Bellow, “Ravelstein”

Obviously, my purpose in mentioning the Crillon's valet service was to comfort Abe for spilling...

April 2016

April 01, 2016

From What’s Probably an Afterword to Andrey Platonov, “The Foundation Pit”

this book looks super All these works appear at first glance--especially to a reader unversed...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

A Critique of “The Wire” as an Outsider’s Tragedy Narrative

written by a Baltimorean and a fan of the show: The closest the show gets...

June 01, 2015

Other People’s Parties: I review “About Elly”

at the Federalist: It’s easy to make “About Elly” sound simple. The film (made...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Small Screens: Several Very Short Movie Reviews

What I've been watching. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Actually pretty fun, once you...

October 2014

October 14, 2014

“Bury My Art at Wounded Knee”: I’m in The American Interest

just a touch late for Columbus Day: Few art forms are as self-consciously nostalgic as...

September 2014

September 20, 2014

“Radio Is a Sound Salvation”: I watch “God Help the Girl”

for AmCon: On the very top level–the frosting of the cupcake, if you will–”God Help...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

A Mundane Masquerade: Peter de Vries, “The Tents of Wickedness”

This is a little 1949 satire--dedicated "To James and Helen Thurber," if you want to...

August 08, 2014

Time Is Like a Dream/And Now–For a Time–You Are Mine: A Few More Thoughts on “Boyhood”

So when I wrote my review of Boyhood I knew it had gotten good press,...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

I Write About the Rise of Cracked.com as an Actual Journalism Behemoth Thing

for AmSpec: Gallows humor is one of the most traditional and least savory elements of...

July 16, 2014

From “Graham Greene on Film: Collected Film Criticism, 1935-1939”

During the conferences [with David Selznick] which followed I remember there were times when there...

July 01, 2014

Musical Rosary #10–Resurrection

After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

In Which I Watch “Maleficent”

for AmSpec. I liked it more than their hed/subhed imply, but it's not what the...

May 2014

May 01, 2014

Hard Man Humble: I review “Dom Hemingway”

for AmSpec: Richard Shepard's Dom Hemingway, starring Jude Law as an aging felon and Richard...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

The Guilty Party: A Double Novel of Czech Complicity and Canadian Frivolity

Joseph Skvorecky's Two Murders in My Double Life basically does what it says on the...

April 25, 2014

“Hideous Strength”: I review “Degenerate Art” at the Neue Galerie

for AmCon: Leave it to the Nazis to make charity posters into advertisements for power-worship....

February 2014

February 06, 2014

Five Things for Thursday

What I've been reading. "Why Young Sexual Assault Victims Tell Incoherent Stories." When my alarmed...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

“10 Most Essential ’70s Conspiracy Thrillers”: Jesse Walker

with a list. I'm actually posting this mainly for the commenters who added Alien and...

December 2013

December 14, 2013

The Catholic Writer and the Skating Boom, Or Every Day Is Self-Parody Day

"[Kathleen] Hanna wanted to become a writer. But Kathy Acker, a counterculture writer Hanna admired,...