What separates the Dr. Seuss incident from more recent cancellations is that it has turned into a...
Books
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...
I decided to look at the concept of fictional redemption arcs in Game of Thrones. In the...
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...
Quit ignoring The Scope Problem or we’ll end up with more Game of Thrones that start off...
And now, Proust immerses us in his remembered social milieu like a sponge cake in tea, and...
George RR Martin kills off his characters right. Those deaths mattered. The TV version of Game of...
The Apple Tree is an eerie seasonal tale about a widower and a familiar old tree to...
A Child’s Christmas in Wales is itself, and in being itself it speaks to variegated experiences beyond...
I know every single one of you is wondering whether and in what ways I appreciate James...
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...
Stop normalizing pathological snobbery, such as “everyone who voted Trump is an inbred, lardlicking oaf ripped from...
This week, If Beale Street Could Talk and Riot Baby, two stories, 46 years apart, about young...
Pessoa was that modernist type: a tiny man with a limited social life and an unfathomably rich...
