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Ida Lupino, the First Lady of Noir [by David Lehman]
Ida Lupino in 1953's The Bigamist, which she directed as well as starred in (Everett Collection) At a time when female directors were few, Ida Lupino directed several important, unorthodox films. The Bigamist (1953), which she directed…
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“There’s always someone who says that poetry is dead” [by Milan Dezinsky]
From Prague a reader sends us this link to an article by Milan Dezinsky titled "There's always someone who says that poetry is dead," reproducing an interview the author did with David Lehman in…
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Michael O’Keefe: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
__________________________________________________________________ Put Up Your Dukes The last time my father beat me I was fifteen years old. After instructing me to “mow the fucking lawn,” to which I wittily replied, “No fucking way,”…
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Sir Larry: an astrological profile [by David Lehman]
On this day in 1989, Sir Laurence Olivier breathed his last. The great actor was eighty-two when he shuffled off this mortal coil. He was a master of accents and disguises. As a young…
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“In Shakespeare” [by James Richardson]
In Shakespeare a lover turns into an assas you would expect. People confusetheir consciences with ghosts and witches.Old men throw everything awaybecause they panic and can=t feel their lives.They pinch themselves, pierce themselves with…
