Poets:The Far Flung Word
I can’t say how really amazing it is to be at the GRD Poetry Festival in Newark, to see poets …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa was not in the final list compiled by would-be Nobel Prize seers. A British betting firm had …
The Republic of Poetry
by Martin Espada For Chile In the republic of poetry, a train full of poets rolls south in the rain …
Generation Hot
Mark Hertzgaard has a new book out. It won’t make you happy. Of course you should already be unhappy. People …
Readings in Contemporary Arabic Literature
I’ve been reading the marvelous Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, for many weeks, and have begun The Trench, the …
Men With Guns
I’ve long ago lost my appetite for American “men-with-guns” movies. Two recent viewings dulled it even more. The American with …
Chabrol’s Eye on the Eye of Vichy
Claude Chabrol (and here and here,) one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema and director of some 50 …
Detective Story by Imre Kertész: A Review
Imre Kertész is the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for fiction. Damn! Another well known and serious writer not …
Plows, Plagues & Petroleum: A Review
William Ruddiman , one of the early paleoclimatologists —a climate scientist who studies climate in ages past– is the father …
Washington Rules by Andrew Bacevich; a Review
Andrew Bacevich, a historian of growing repute, a writer of substantial historical and social analysis and a self identified conservative …
Crime and Punishment: A Film
Now that we’ve added Turner Classic Movies to our Tivo download list all sorts of odd and interesting movies are …
Recent Movies
I don’t know whether movie time has been short or time to think about them and set finger to keyboard …