I'm feeling a bit under the weather this week, so I think I will let Ralph Fiennes...
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).
The Prisoner by Marcel Proust's depiction of doomed and obsessive sexual jealousy is not nearly as bleak...
Proust is showing us the world that was in terminal decline by the first world war and...
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust: In which the love that dare not speak its name finally...
We're halfway through Marcel Proust's epic The Guermantes Way and Death makes an appearance or two to...
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust: On worshipping and serving others in the social world of Volume...
As we finish Marcel Proust's "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" our hero heads to...
In "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" by Marcel Proust, our hero goes through the...
Let anyone who has never debased themselves for a mismatched love cast the first snark. Finishing the...
And now, Proust immerses us in his remembered social milieu like a sponge cake in tea, and...
In a sense, it feels doubly-appropriate to reread Proust in middle age because so much of his...
The Apple Tree is an eerie seasonal tale about a widower and a familiar old tree to...
It's hard to imagine a poet having more professional success and personal tragedy than Longfellow, and yet...
Like the recent HBO series, I consumed "Lovecraft Country" ravenously, like I was a dripping protoplasmic monster...
This week I read two novels by Hari Kunzru, a modern magician of storytelling, though the tricks...
This week, If Beale Street Could Talk and Riot Baby, two stories, 46 years apart, about young...
In reality, it was never much of a record shop. But, for many of us, Hammer City...
This great little novel suggests that surrealism might be the only way to write about the strangeness...
We are children of the Enlightenment. Alas, according to this study, we are also shaped by the...
Pessoa was that modernist type: a tiny man with a limited social life and an unfathomably rich...
