Thoughts on Seymour Krim and George W. S. Trow that probably fail to illuminate the uses of...
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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...
In Adele Bertei's novelistic memoir, a Dickensian waif survives a rough childhood and recreates herself as a...
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...
They always judge you. On Hungarian writer Magda Szabó's haunting novel about a housekeeper who loves and...
We're not all Christian anarchists like Leo Tolstoy, but he's not exactly wrong about how art eases...
Like fairy tales for mad children, the stories of Leonora Carrington are as packed with strangeness and...
