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Talking Pictures: On “The Asphalt Jungle’”
Ed note: Since December 2019 I have written a regular column on classic movies for The American Scholar. Here are the opening paragraphs of my latest, which was posted yesterday (April 17) under the…
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Free City FilmTrip – 1 “Corrupt Purposes” [film by Bill Hayward]
Bill Hayward is a creative paradox: a master image-maker who lives surrounded by poets and writers. You should see what he does to his books, which lie in great stalagmites all over his floor…
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Elinor Nauen: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________________________ The History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell had just about convinced me there’s more to life than sex I’d like…
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In Memoriam: Daneen Wardrop & Laura Boss
When a poet dies there is a vast caesura, a field of lilacs interrupted by wing beats and heartbeats and aches and aches and: snugly in the ampersand at the end of a life,…
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David Lehman’s “Peace and War in American Poetry” [by Anne Holmes]
from the Library of Congress: November 22, 2019 by Anne Holmes The following essay was written in 2012 by David Lehman as part of the Poetry and Literature Center’s online “Poetry of American History” series that ran from…
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Viennese Traffic Lights [by Lera Auerbach]
In Vienna, they have same-sex pedestrian traffic lights. Typically, traffic lights are sexist: they display a matchstick figure of a man that turns green or red and sometimes flashes nervously, trying to speed up…
