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The Prophecy of an Assassination: John Frankenheimer’s prescient 1962 film, “The Manchurian Candidate” [by David Lehman]
from The American Scholar / January 22, 2022 When The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon, was released in 1962, Pauline Kael called it “the most sophisticated political satire ever to come…
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Festival Every Body 2024: Performing with difference [By Tracy Danison]
“WHIP” by Georges Labbat. Photo © David Le Borgne Festival Every Body, at Carreau du Temple between 9 and 13 February, bills itself as dance, performance and material art focused on the human body,…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 24, 2024
Holly Iglesias writes a kickass prose poem! Here is one of her many delightful offerings. The Day I Was Radioactive at Mass, I sat behind a young man who exhibited symptoms of acute devotionalism—bowing…
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“The Apology Day breakfast” by Ali Cobby Eckermann [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
This year, January 26 arrives in Australia with added resignation following the defeat of the “Voice” referendum late last year, which would have altered the Constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by…
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So We’ll Go No More a Roving [on Lord Byron’s birthday, Jan. 22nd]
So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night,Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the…
