Dreamers — Siegfried Sassoon
I’ve been reading Pat Barker’s well thought of trilogy, Regeneration [Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road] about …
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Three Monkeys – A Film from Turkey
Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic …
Ferlinghetti Declares for the 49ers
Unexpectedly, Lawrence Ferlinghetti made an appearance on the NY Times sports pages today. Of last weeks 49ers victory over the …
“Night” by Elie Wiesel — Re-Reading
I’ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel’s ground breaking, terrible, memoir, Night, this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade, …
Heron God
I wondered as I watched the Great Blue Heron fishing if he had a god , and if so …
Bioluminescence Flashes to the Rescue
Very cool article a couple of weeks back in the NY Times about Laura Widder, a famed marine biologist, who …
Translation: Dancers at the Wedding
One of the books I received for holiday good wishes was David Bellos’ “Is That a Fish in Your Ear?“, …
Distant – a Film from Turkey
I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a …
Children of Paradise – A Film from Iran
If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know …
Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti
A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters …