Wrapping up our Bowles-o-rama with three depictions of Paul and Jane Bowles on film, in somewhat mutated...
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).
On Paul Bowles' short story, an alleged murder he committed, and the rediscovery of Sara Driver's 1981...
Jane Bowles only wrote one play. Like her one novel, In The Summer House is a strange...
The Bowles series continues with Paul's 1955 novel about the Moroccan independence movement and the struggles of...
Exploring the Bowles cannon continues with Jane Bowles's more comedic novel about people who also wander halfway...
A debut novel that feels a bit like a rupture, not quite like anything that came before...
Berit Ellingsen's beautiful and enigmatic debut novel details a modern day hermit seeking to avoid doing violence...
In Georgian England, you could be hired to live as a hermit on a rich person's land...Right...
"Perry is definitely a writer. His essays are meandering and misshapen, slippery and jagged, they wriggle and...
This week, I finally got up the nerve to write about Agnès Varda's masterpiece "Vagabond," a sort...
Remembering the masterful Viennese writer whose works depict a high society of childlike adults living in an...
In the case of America, the accepted standard for broadcasting and spoken English sounds more like a...
On the end of grief, and James Baldwin's classic story of grief at the beginning and end...
Viewed from one perspective, a funeral is a unit of measurement marking the gap between our most...
The time felt right to reread Thomas Mann's novella and watched Lucino Visconti's 1971 film of desire...
So how did I find myself on my city's official “reopening” downtown giggling uncontrollably with my friend,...
J.D. Wilkes's debut novel packs every Southern myth and legend into one epic, rollicking fricasseed Odyssey. Let's...
The "rediscovered classic" of academic life does what great art is supposed to do: immerse us in...
By subverting her narrative multiple times and in many different ways, the memoirist gives a good idea...
All human plans are provisional and the rules change every day. I say we keep gardening.
