Fine Distinctions
… of its happening lessens the closer to impossible it comes: living to one hundred, let’s say, following a life of … you know ain’t true.” Faith turns not only on belief but also on certainty. I hope, as millions of people do, that … that I have faith that I will win the Powerball, I would commit a grammatically permissible but essentially …
Essays
… On Cartoons, Colors, Ferris Wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, Coming Out, the Internet, and Me In 2021, after forty adult … cartoon, and thus where we find our feelings. Color also has cultural power, symbolism, and a profound … adapted, or “interpolated,” as musicians who borrow OG melodies might say, with my son making the same kinds of …
… if we dwelt inland, where the magic of seeing our theater come splashing around a bend in the river was denied us, we … were praised. Like old fashioned American architecture—falsely grand and noisy in the 1850’s—old fashioned American … “Otranto” and “Udolpho.” Alongside of the bad writing that dies soon, come the greater works of the romantic spirit, …
… finest Michelangelo or Raphael; but not everyone knows the comment made on it a half century later, by William Morris … whom Boston owes so much of its strength in the arts, was also a good talker, and his sayings are still repeated in … from enjoying them at a time. “Have you seen them?” I asked Diego Rivera. He paused for a moment in his painting on the …
… Frederic Prokosch. Harper. $2.50. The Power House. By Alex Comfort. Viking. $3.00. The Ballad and the Source. By … or directly, the phenomenon of war; the other five are studies in family life, where a kind of undeclared war, … for astonishment over their deaths, wounds, or survivals. Kersh’s prose, like Stephen Crane’s, is distinguished …
Interviews
… had just finished filming), as well as his unwillingness to compromise artistic integrity for commercial success. A few … he is “old fashioned” in being unwilling to write for audiences, he outlines how the politics of filmmaking can take … of that thought comes a particularization of the visual and also of the technical aspects of the visual, if you know …