Archival Culture(s)
November 26, 2025It is scarcely news that in a vast, pluralistic country like the United States, minorities should...
Borges: A Poet’s Quest for Simplicity
November 24, 2025Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not...
The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness
September 14, 2025The practice of blessing mass entertainment with the bard's prose confers a kind of loftiness upon...
Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany
September 14, 2025At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen...
Trailer Watch: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
August 23, 2025Martin Scorsese, Hollywood titan, enjoys a special reputation for directing violent, foul-mouthed crime flicks. Admittedly, he...
Book Review: Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr
August 20, 2025Except for a (thankfully) brief, unscientific use of Google metrics, Orr beautifully shares instances of why...
Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker
August 19, 2025Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the...
The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics
July 23, 2025With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard...
The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity
July 17, 2025Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole...
Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.
July 4, 2025Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his...




