Paul Franz

Author Archive

  • Mar 10, 2026
    A fool says that Point Blank lacks character development. A second fool, the kind moved to disputation, hence to stating the obvious, replies that this misses the point:...
  • Feb 23, 2026
    Michael Clune’s debut novel Pan shares little beside its title and first-person perspective with the nineteenth-century Norwegian novella by Knut Hamsun about the erotic...
  • Feb 6, 2026
    On the use of personal experience in writing: but these fragments of the real should be relativized within a larger whole, as a method actor’s memories are harnessed to...
  • Jan 30, 2026
    With the publication of her novel Second Place in 2021, a rewriting of Mabel Dodge Luhan’s 1932 memoir Lorenzo in Taos, a broad public of critics and reviewers...
  • Jan 12, 2026
    By “machine” I mean the cinematic medium—that affair of celluloid, electric light, and whirring motors. By “ghost,” I mean the soul—soul of the...
  • Jan 1, 2026
    The provocation of Hulme: to distinguish between the Absolute and Nature. Contrast this with the Blakean-Romantic distinction between Energy and nature. Energy in this conception not...