The Gift of Memory: Charlie Kaufman on the Culture of Death
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I first became interested in the celebrated screenwriter Charlie Kaufman after watching Eternal Sunshine of the…
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Surprisingly Conceived: Kazuo Ishiguro's Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence
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A review of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (Knopf, 2021).
Music: The Art of Time
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Music is an unfolding of time. Indeed, music is an art uniquely suited to the exploration of time. We experience time…
Ego and Theo in Rumer Godden's "Kingfishers Catch Fire"
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A claim to familiarity with what is known as “the India novels” of Rumer Godden is like a rare badge of honor for those…
Identity, Community, Monstrosity
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Naoki Urasawa’s 74-episode anime series Monster (directed by Masayuki Kojima) provides a slow, graphic, confronting,…
Gawain, the Green Knight and the Choice between Witchcraft and Sacrament
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“Look, see a world that holds more wonders than any since the earth was born . . .”
So begins writer and director David…
"The Word Has Weight": Poetry for Holy Week
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The Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
The Word
has weight
pondered unbroken
carefully carried
quietly…
Marriage and the Monarchy
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Although the title of Peter Morgan’s The Crown suggests a story about the monarchy and politics, the driving force of…
Czesław Miłosz: A Poet of Luminous Things
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Reading Czesław Miłosz’s poetry can feel a bit surreal these days. Frequent visual echoes of his poems flash by on…
Challenging the Platform of Risk-Free Marriage
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Reviews of HBO’s remake (2021) of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage have been lukewarm. While heaping praise on…