Beasts of the Southern Wild: A Report
Beasts of the Southern Wild has been wildly praised in many parts. We went to see it despite some trepidation …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Message of Love from Valdemar Gris — Miguel Labordeta
MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM VALDEMAR GRIS by Miguel Labordeta From my own man sadness wrenched out in bits of bitter …
Cities of Salt: The Trench — The Pit in the Desert
Abdelrahman Munif‘s trilogy,* Cities of Salt is one of those era-defining efforts of literary imagination and craft. It has been called …
The Mirror – a Poem, Jose Angel Valente
The Mirror Jose Angel Valente Today I saw my face, so unfamiliar, so strange and fallen in this mirror. It …
Cities Of Salt: Wadi No More
Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does …
WW I in Paris: Murder in Aurora
The Past Recaptured (1932), the US title and Frederick Blossom translation of Le Temps retrouvé, is the seventh volume of Marcel Proust’s immortal Remembrance …
Natural Mechanical — a small volume of large poems
I’ve been reading the poems of J.O. Morgan, Scot, lately. And slowly. A page a morning, as is taught by …
Silvio Soldini on That Greener Grass
Silvio Soldini won’t be an Italian film maker who immediately springs to mind though thought be applied. With a thirty …
The Silence of the Sea — A Film of Noncooperation with Evil
The Silence of the Sea, a 1949 film by Jean Pierre Melville, may be one of the strangest war movies …