Act, and Profit By It: The virtues of action in Dante's "Inferno" On the active pursuit of "knowledge and excellence", and how the road to Hell is never hard to find. 1. It’s a commonly proscribed trope...
Act, and Profit By It: The virtues of action in Dante's "Inferno"On the active pursuit of "knowledge and excellence", and how the road to Hell is never hard to find. 1. It’s a commonly proscribed trope...
The Audience Cut: In praise of flawed filmsDirectors aren't the only ones who get to edit films the way they want; each of us gets to create our preferred versions too... 1. Here’s...
"A Single Man": Why people are more than they seemHow Isherwood's masterpiece shows up the hollowness of modern, reductive views of what makes us human. 1. It is a truth universally...
An Embarrassment of RichesThe many ways to approach books, movies, and music. 1. I’ve always liked the phrase “an embarrassment of riches”. It has the same strange...
"Petals for Armor": Why it hurts to growHow Hayley Williams' intimate and personal music explores the pains and pleasures of growth. 1. “I myself was a wilted woman, Drowsy in a...
On "Birdman" or (The People Who Burn, Burn, Burn)On the meteoric ascent and inevitable crash-and-burn of the tragic hero, from Achilles through Nietzsche to Birdman. "The only people for...
