… that the churches are not only places of rest, but of sleep also, it is not remarkable that (taking these assumptions to … care to realize every psychological reaction of their audiences, and to play up or down, as the case may be, to the … this lack? These, in an age when formal religion has become theatrical and removed from the really intimate …
Essays
… wayward showers and the humidity high, so that the weather combined with the effects of the wine at lunch made you feel … who intoned sorrowfully, “When they drink it that way, they die.” However, Elliot survived to go on to new challenges. … out and had a leisurely breakfast. He entrusted his briefcase to me—apparently his only luggage—so as not to be …
Criticism
… and trade in exoticism invoke the ethnographic studies of Robert Flaherty, whose entirely staged Nanook of the … reaction to the moving image, particularly when it comes to representations of “reality.” A willingness to … warn, inform, and establish best practices,” as Wilkman points out, but “audiences share responsibility for …
… is one thing; but this American phenomenon of books of composite authorship expounding So-and-so’s “Theory of this” and “Theory of that” has very little to recommend it. Now the learned gentlemen who contributed their … against volumes of joint authorship, designed as memorials for philosophical figures who need and desire no …
Profiles
… the nineties, he’s occasionally mentioned, like his younger compatriot David Grossman, as someone who could be a viable … , which has received generally positive reviews. There’s also a new anthology of his work, titled The Amos Oz Reader … many Bedouin, some of whom also live in the unrecognized communities that surround Arad. They live in dilapidated …
Essays
… During my junior semester abroad, I worked as a companion for Anne-Marie, a famously reclusive French poet who died a couple years ago. She had a rule I knew well, though … tossed with rum-soaked dried cranberries and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. For dessert, she made a cast-iron fruit …