“Theft and urination seem a reasonably measured response:” Mark Cousins writes about the striking theme of vengeance in recent world cinema. “The challenge is to look at the whole of it – the awful history with the daring leaps of progress – and see something living, ever-evolving:” Timothy Egan contemplates the American flag and its [...]
Newspapers have given noteworthiness to Roger Ebert’s life; blogging has led him to contemplate death, in prose that grows ever-richer and more uncommonly personal. Meanwhile, replying to his blog has given his readers their own affectations … When I began this blog I thought if there was one thing I’d never write about, it would [...]
“Child, I am God / Please do not bother me with practicalities:” Christopher Logue’s version of the Illiad kicks so much ass, who cares if the guy doesn’t actually know ancient Greek? Jeff Sypeck explains. What is the “Usage Panel” of the American Heritage Dictionary? Editrix considers. “Find me a better literary critic in the [...]
“I hear an army charging upon the land;” at MIT, a group of students have put Ezra Pound’s Des Imagistes project online, including James Joyce’s remarkable poem. “What pure motives, and purely carried out:” My Life in Books has been reading Willkie Collins’ The Moonstone. You should read it, too. Remember my itty bitty jab [...]
Roger Ebert day-dreams of a life on the balcony, as things come to an end. “One of these days I shall tackle the rest of Baudelaire,” wrote Walter Benjamin to his friend Max Horkheimer, in a last letter from Paris. Samuel Beckett adamantly refused be taped. Against character, I decide not to watch this tape [...]
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