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Parasite’s powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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“I wrote those poems because I think people need to read the truth and to hear the truth about romantic sensibilities between gay people.”
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Black + White from the Fernanda Ghi Dance Company was provocative, dramatic, and oh-so-mysterious.
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I wanted to give my kids this gift of a book about them and for them.
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Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.
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No author has addressed the issue of sexual assault so much on her own terms, and in such a personal and powerful way.
Read MoreBook Review: “Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem” — A Dazzling Study of the Oldest Long Poem in the World
This is a wonderfully readable book, sure-footed in its scholarship but hip and occasionally hilarious in its tone.
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“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”
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Like Breaking Bad, El Camino subtly suggests that justice is a relative concept.
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Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”
“What is the function of literary criticism in a Disinformation Age? Read, reread, describe, evaluate, appreciate: that is the art of literary criticism for the present time.” — Harold Bloom
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