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March 2021

March 06, 2021

Scheherezade in Prison: Four short movie notes

Four very different films--all of which I'd recommend! This past week has been very good...

December 2020

December 08, 2020

Parting Glances: I watch “Summer of ’85”

Okay, I will first say that I developed a Theory about this movie, a theory...

October 2020

October 12, 2020

Halloween Playlist 3: Midnight in America

Previous years here and here. This year has a bit less variety than the two...

July 2020

July 09, 2020

Yea, Thou I Walk Through the Tiny Scandinavian Island of the Shadow of Death

Last night I finished The Summer Book, Tove Jansson's quirky, haunting little novel about a...

December 2018

December 04, 2018

A Place in Memory Where Snow Is Always Falling: Harrison Lemke’s Advent Album

Advent is the season of anticipation, and yet it so often prompts recollection. You look...

November 2018

November 14, 2018

Plots Fall, Everyone Dies: Revisiting “Harry Potter” for No Real Reason

Well, the reason is my whole time-travel rosary thing, which I'm still doing (and will...

May 2018

May 09, 2018

“Medieval Rites and Contemporary Dying”: Church Life Journal

is playing my song: The immediate response to death in many medieval communities was song....

January 2018

January 24, 2018

I Review “The Devil’s Workshop,” Czech Satire of Genocide Tourism

at FareForward: In 2005 a Czech novelist writes a book, one of the rare Czech...

October 2017

October 12, 2017

A Girl in Love

I recently watched Writer of O, the 2004 documentary about Pauline Reage/Dominique Aury/Anne Desclos, the...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

“The Alphabet and the Inevitability of Death in Early Protestant America”: Fantastic little piece

from the Smithsonian: Do you remember the books that helped you learn to read—maybe Dick...

September 07, 2017

Abnormal Beauties: Short horror reviews (films and book)

I recently got to live out a childhood dream. My best friend sent me to...

October 2016

October 08, 2016

The Long Halloween: Some quick movie reviews

The House at the End of Time: Twisty Venezuelan family/haunted-house horror about an older woman...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Kids Under 12 Drink Free: I review the “AbFab” movie & “Bojack Horseman”

together! The third season of Bojack Horseman arrived the same day the long-awaited Absolutely Fabulous:...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

“Love and Death in the Multiverse”: I review “Constellations”

for AmCon. Sorry for radio silence! I will be back after Easter. Also this play...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

“Stephen King’s Doubt”: I review “Revival”

for AmCon: There’s a cheap rhetorical move you see a lot in religious debate, where...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Les Murray, “The Last Hellos”

Sorry, Dad, but like have you forgiven your enemies? Your father and all of them?...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

“The Wisdom of the Beguines”: Commonweal Book Review on Medieval Laywomen Mystics

with tons of fascinating stuff: In the twelfth century, single women began moving in large...

July 2015

July 13, 2015

From Lionel Johnson, “By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross”

Vanquished in life, his death By beauty made amends: The passing of his breath Won...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

From Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Idiot”

tr Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky--letter written by a terminally-ill teenager, so Dostoyevsky is fully...

June 19, 2015

“Population: 1,” A Punk History of the Late, Great USA

"If you don't remember the 80s, just imagine listening to Duran Duran's 'Hungry Like the...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

“Merry Widows, Weeping Brides”: I review a costume show at MoMA

for AmCon: In college I noticed something new on the coat of a sartorially-eccentric friend....

October 2014

October 02, 2014

From “Infinite Jest”

The 'base [freebase cocaine] frees and condenses, compresses the whole experience to the implosion of...

August 2014

August 06, 2014

“Youngest Son Adds Laments to the Indie Hymnal”: I’m at AmCon

with some music: We’ve tussled here about the possible merits of Mumford & Sons, and...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

Musical Rosary #14–Assumption

The two things I focus on with this mystery are the union of body and...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Musical Rosary #10–Crucifixion

But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit. And...

May 2014

May 06, 2014

From Josip Novakovich, “April Fool’s Day”

"If he'd kept drinking slivovitz, he'd still be all right, I am sure. The trouble...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

“City of God”: Love and Rocket

I watched the 2003 favela gangster film City of God last night, and I have...

March 01, 2014

“Art Breakers”: I’m in The American Interest

reviewing: The first chamber sets up the thesis of “Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

Seth Mnookin on Relapse and the Ghost World

One truism of addiction science is that long-term abuse rewires your brain and changes its...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

“I Would Like to Send You a Memory”

ok yes, there's some really great stuff here--I thought it would be glurgy or hipster...