Alexis Bledel

Television Review: “The Handmaid’s Tale” — Not a Documentary…Yet

Margaret Atwood’s novel turns out to have been far more clairvoyant than even she believed it would be.

Chris Clark January 22, 2022 at 3:26 pm on Book Review: “Robert E. Lee and Me” — An Incomplete ReckoningThe book rings hollow. This man is an emeritus professor of history and it only took him 59 years to...
Mary Ella Feinleib January 22, 2022 at 12:23 am on Television Review: “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” — A Feminist Tribute or a Reframe-up Job?A very good analysis. Trying to turn a woman from the past into a symbol of feminism is a n...
Thomas Garvey January 20, 2022 at 3:13 pm on Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently PessimisticWell, that's classic Gerald Peary right there.
Athar January 18, 2022 at 3:56 pm on Poetry Review: Writer Alain Mabanckou — Taking Life Both to Heart and in StrideThank you for your incisive comments on BEST AMERICAN POETRY OF 2021 which I have been plowing through and finding...
Peter Power January 18, 2022 at 1:14 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)I absolutely love OFSE, it really captures the intimacy that Nanci could bring to her stage performances. I thankfully had...