The Deer Hunter — Re-Seeing in 2012
Seeing Michael Cimino‘s The Deer Hunter 30 plus years after it made such an impression in 1978 as one of the …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
Standing Alone: Lives of Light
Here’s a book I wish I’d had in the run-up and early years of the US invasion of Iraq. There …
Tony Judt: Thinking the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt, one of the vital public intellectuals of our time, died of ALS in August of 2010. Against all …
Violence Is My Theme — Vladimir Sorokin
Add this to my lengthening to-read-before-you-die list: From The Telegraph’s Best Fiction Books 2011: Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, …
The Train — A Movie Worth Getting Aboard
My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled …
The Mule – A Novel from Spain
Spain was the country of some former life of mine, I’m sure. I loved living there as a younger man …
Memed, My Hawk — A Novel from Turkey
What a wonderful thing it is to travel to distant lands, and far-away times in the hands of a master …
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
I am one of those cautious travelers who would not dream of parachuting into a place without knowing something about …
I Fell From A Bike Today
I fell from a bike today, hard. At sixty eight, four feet seems not so far until whacked by gravity …
Judgment Day
I’m getting ready for my day of judgment approaching breath by breath. Preparing in the sunlight, fog or sleet, preparing …
Richard Howard Brings Mallarme For A Beer
The Center for the Art of Translation hosts a once a month Lit & Lunch series in a large artists’ …
Morning Bird Songs: Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Transtromer, the recently Nobel Laureated poet from Sweden, writes luminescent gems, perhaps cut with different facets in Robert Bly’s …