The Circle
It’s possible that Dave Eggers’ The Circle was meant to be taken lightly. That someone would compare despotic regimes that torture and kill people to internet companies like Google and Facebook, this...
View ArticleFive Problems with Whiplash
Although Whiplash held my interest, and I did enjoy the music, I found the film irredeemably problematic. The characters are apparently very skilled as musicians, but as people they can only play the...
View ArticleNothing Changes
The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having...
View ArticleI am Called Red
Yes, handsome almond-eyed apprentices applied me with elegant brushes to thick paper from Hindustan and Bukhara; I embellished Ushak carpets, wall ornamentation, the combs of fighting cocks,...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About This Thing Called Reggae
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View ArticleCharacter from Huxley
He was interested only in what was beyond the foreground— in that exquisitely abbreviated upper lip, in the little nose that made you want to cry when you looked at it, it was so elegant and...
View ArticleThe Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman
“All the same,” said the Scarecrow, “I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.” “I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman;...
View ArticleRIP Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme was a friend of my father’s—I had the pleasure of meeting him several times. And of course his groundbreaking direction of Talking Heads continues to flicker across my screen. Jonathan...
View ArticleThe Book of the Grotesque
It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to...
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