The second book in Butler's Parables series shows how our stories can often blind us to reality,...
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).
Lending libraries began among the lumières who could afford them. Thoughts on public bookcases, private vices, and...
Octavia Butler's 1993 novel Parable of the Sower posits a future dystopia that's located just right next...
Like many classic myths, the epic third season of Twin Peaks seems to say, if the pain...
Twin Peaks: Season 2 went darker and weirder, and then the Lynchian heart went out of it....
30 years later, I watched Twin Peaks Season 1 for the first time and found it quite...
It's hard to know quite how to read Lucia, an imaginative and erudite depiction of a woman's...
Naturally, Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison is an unfinished work. All things living are unfinished. But what’s there...
François-René de Chateaubriand tried to find his way in the moments after the old world had ceased...
Julie Dash's luminous Daughters of the Dust plays like a series of rituals guiding its Gullah characters...
Wild Seed is often called a science-fiction novel, with the sciences being biology and genetics, and really...
Richard Wright's "lost" 1942 novel of guilt, exile, and spiritual initiation has been fortuitously pulled up from...
Jim Harrison's classic character Brown Dog seems to have figured out life's secret- we're just here to...
Fellini's heartbreaking archetypal story of how, in life, Experience comes to kick the snot out of Innocence....
In Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece the sense of vertigo is inspired by the infinite space between Self and...
Persona by Ingmar Bergman places two women in a cottage to find out what happens when we...
Hanif Abdurraqib's song of praise never elides Black pain or the reality of racism; but centers and...
We've reached the final volume of "In Search of Lost Time" and, finally, our hero has realized...
I would compare having COVID to wading into a bog where you can't see what lurks beneath...
There are many readers for whom “The Fugitive” is their favorite volume because it’s a psychologically rich...
