What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.
Books
Arts Remembrance: A Tribute to Poet and Writer John Ash
We were both English-speaking ex-patriots living in Istanbul, and John Ash’s poetry spoke eloquently to that shared experience.
Book Review: “Were We Awake” — Speculating in the Dark
L. M. Brown knows there are certain questions in life that we just never get the answers to. Or dare to ask.
Book Review: The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars — Protecting the Sacred Value of Time
Alan Rosen’s book thoughtfully illuminates the perilous calendrical devotion of Jews during the Holocaust, seeing it as a form of resistance.
Book Commentary: “La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”
José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.
Book Review: “Rocking the Closet” — Queering the Mainstream
Audiences knew (or at least thought they knew) something was up, and that something was what made these performers unique.
Book Review: Writer Flannery O’Connor — The Most Un-Hip Woman Imaginable, and Proud of It.
If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”
Book Review: Rereading Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”
It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided non-hero and have us gradually appreciate his non-participatory status.
Book Review: “For Kids of All Ages” — The Love of Cinema Burns Bright!
Peter Keough has edited a useful, insightful, and delightful new collection of short essays that explore films that appeal to adults who seek childlike glee or awe at the movies.
Book Review: A Biography of John Berger — A Seminal Artist and Thinker
If you have not read John Berger, by the end of this biography you’re likely to feel an urgent need to pick up one of his books.