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“An Irish Halloween Blessing”: On Terence Winch’s Birthday
On Terence Winch's Birthday Isn't it beautiful? Johann Zoffany's painting of a production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, 1770, and Terence sent me the image to accompany the note he writes each…
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Film Review: TRUFFAUT, François: The Last Metro (1980) [by Lewis Saul]
Truffaut (1932-1984) had intended to make a sort of trilogy about the living arts; first about cinema (Day for Night [1973]); theatre (this film); and vaudeville, which he didn't live long enough to make.…
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“Epiphany” [by David Lehman]
The announcer for the oppositionis so one-sided in his commentaryso unabashedly partisanthat I dash off a pissed-off postlikening him to the Yankees’s Phil Rizzutobut without Phil’s endearing traitsthat made him perfect for the roleof…
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Ballet de Lorraine Season 2022-23 #1: the easy confidence of lovers [by Tracy Danison]
View of Stanislas Square from the Opéra National de Lorraine. Architecture, culture, venue, the city of Nancy’s a little jewel of a big provincial town and a good place to be. Photo Patrick…
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John Donne’s Holy Sonnets #10 & #14: On Glen Hartley’s Birthday
10. Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrowDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest…
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“The Last Cigarette” [by David Lehman]
Every cigarette is the last cigarette. A cigarette is an invitation. When, in The Lady from Shanghai, able-bodied Irish sailor Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles) meets Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) in a horse-drawn carriage in Central…
