Paul Franz

Author Archive

  • 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...