Murukami also reminds one of Kafka or Lynch in that he leaves many of his mysteries open and unexplained. Some will find this frustrating.
This week, I finally watched a marvelous landmark of world cinema: Satyajit Ray’s “Apu Trilogy”
A lively trip around the world to compare how different cultures bring out their dead.
Taking a look at a fantastic documentary about one of the world’s most singular filmmakers and one of his recently reassessed films.
This week I read two novels by Hubert Selby Jr. I’d never read him before. Selby buried me.
On Carlos Reygadas’s strangely sincere, beautiful, and deeply spiritual movie about infidelity among the Mennonites.
On a Japanese novel and film that deal in different ways with the social pressure to forget.
The Balzac streak continues with a supernatural tale built on the fantastical conceit that our energies can be used to fulfill our desires or squandered and lost.
Here’s a book that takes cultural essay writing to a whole other level.
I suppose by middle age it’s high time I started with Balzac…
On a posthumous novel by the great writer (and overwriter) from North Carolina.
While consuming all of this fiction, I’d like to sketch a few brief notes, particularly about story structure and the use of pastiche.
On Daniel Swift’s journey into Saint Elizabeth’s mental hospital with Ezra Pound.
On Rebecca Solnit’s 2013 collection of interwoven, digressive, personal essays about the stories we tell to make our way through life with each other.
A few brief notes on a Dada memoir from a founder and Bi Gan’s stunning 2015 film on time, memory, and the illusory quality of past, present, and future.
About an extremely readable day book for 1922, a year in which culture changed absolutely.
On a great contemporary artist, a Bergman classic, and the cruelty and care of depicting others.
A once-notorious Enlightenment satire and 1950s crime films agree on one point: we should stop flattering ourselves about our public demonstrations of virtue.
Too Much Faith Following the Wrong Leader
October 13, 2019
Goodbye Stranger, It’s Time to Ramble On, Nice to Know You….
October 13, 2019
October 13, 2019
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Outer Worlds Final Stretch
October 12, 2019
Saturday Spins: The Grateful Dead
October 12, 2019
Grand & Glorious: Christopher Columbus
October 12, 2019
Atlanta Sports Fans: Why us, oh Lord?
October 11, 2019
Yom Kippur: The Cycle Starts Up Again
October 11, 2019
October 11, 2019
Trump Greenlights Turkish Invasion of Northern Syria
October 7, 2019
Nancy Pelosi Makes “Official Impeachment Inquiry” Announcement
September 24, 2019
October 10, 2019
On Greta Thunberg and Public Discourse around ASD
September 28, 2019
The Impeachment Meltdown Begins
October 1, 2019
Cuomo, Rudy, and Ukraine, Oh My
September 20, 2019
The GM Strike is Going to Take a While
September 18, 2019
Clown Show: Corey Lewandowski Amuses Himself at Jerry Nadler’s Circus
September 18, 2019
If I had to guess... are the richest parts of the state experiencing blackouts or just the, ahem, middle class parts?
It doesn't matter, I suppose.
on RosebudThe 1% Doctrine. Which is ... pure bullshit.
on RosebudBUT MAYBE HE MIGHT HAVE! Straw man. I'm talking ab…
on RosebudIf by "we" you mean Germany, you are largely corre… on Rosebud...and inspectors continued to assert that Iraq ha… on Rosebud:)
on RosebudHe did have chemical weapons, lots of them, which… on RosebudOh, I'm terrifically mad at Bush. We'd be a better… on Rosebud"Saddam didn't have nukes, BUT MAYBE HE MIGHT HAVE…
The Grand Odyssey That Is One Piece
Leave The Amazon Be
Maybe Forgiveness After All
Speaking of Terror
No, Google Did Not Steal The Election
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