Thoughts on Seymour Krim and George W. S. Trow that probably fail to illuminate the uses of...
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
Is Iago a psychopath? Or is patriarchy the real killer in this story?
A film that vividly depicts the great battles of the Napoleonic Wars, while showing the "great man"...
While it's tempting to see "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare as a gentle story about forgiveness, love,...
Shakespeare's play about political speech and the violence that underlies it raises questions about Caesar and democracy...
The Tragedy of Macbeth: The story of a man who aspired to be a monster, and forgot...
Returning to it after a few decades, I realize how nightmarish is Shakespeare's vision of human frailty,...
Shakespeare's Richard III is a useful reminder of how difficult it is to live under a truly...
It’s hard to transmogrify work and poverty into art. Never Come Morning, by Nelson Algren, probably did...
We now interrupt your scheduled arrival for a brief existential crisis. (Or, maybe, it's just like that...
If living in this world nearly overwhelmed Richard Hambleton, his paintings still have the power to nearly...
A "lost" symbolist classic by Gustave Khan about a dreamer throwing himself into "life" and running away...
In Adele Bertei's novelistic memoir, a Dickensian waif survives a rough childhood and recreates herself as a...
In what feels like four novels in one, James Baldwin covers everything he knows about how internalized...
A recent book on the art world did not exactly rock mine. But "Leaving Brooklyn" from 1989-...
If you haven't seen a Bergman picture, I'd start with Wild Strawberries. It's one of his most...
In his highly lauded novel "The Underground Railroad," Colson Whitehead, rewires the creaky old machinery of the...
Magda Szabó published Katalin Street 20 years before The Door, and 10 years after being rehabilitated as...
This seems to be how Colette wrote her masterpiece novellas: Chéri and The End of Chéri: she...
It's something you've seen in a million crime films...
