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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...