An Embarrassment of Riches The many ways to approach books, movies, and music. 1. I’ve always liked the phrase “an embarrassment of riches”. It has the same strange...
Why Does "Lost In Translation" End With a Mystery?Why don't we get to hear what Bob says to Charlotte at the end of the film, and what does this secret tell us about the movie's themes?
"Bonjour Tristesse": The Divided SelfHow Françoise Sagan's novel shows that our sense of self shapes our sense of ethics
Forbidden KnowledgeCan knowledge ever be truly hidden from us – and, more importantly, should it be? 1. In the early nineties, when I was about seven years...
The Baumbach VariationsHow "The Squid and the Whale" and "The Meyerowitz Stories" revisit and reshape shared themes Within the confines of an apartment just...
What Matters When the World is Burning?In the face of pandemics, riots, and racism, space exploration can seem irrelevant. But by asking the question of whether astronauts (or...
How Will Cinemas Survive?After a world in lockdown and with social distancing becoming the new norm, what will happen to cinemas, galleries, and the ways we...
