Going to places, like beaches and parks, I associate with children has made me feel their absence and the silence of their ‘songs of innocence’. I don’t…
Once in a very long while – four times in my life – an actor leaps from the screen and into my deepest fears. I can never look at them…
What does it mean when 78.9 percent of today’s Louisianans were born there? Nothing good, infers Richard Florida, Senior Editor at The Atlantic and Director of the Martin Prosperity…
For years, I received a weekly feed from those funny folks at the Darwin Awards, ‘A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises honoring those who improve the species…by accidentally removing themselves…
Outside Vermont, Calvin Coolidge is remembered, if at all, as ‘Silent Cal’, the president notable only for keeping his mouth shut. The utter improbability of this persona in…
The May 2011 Harper’s has a superb review of ‘Another Year’ by Francine Prose: ‘Lonely Island: Mike Leigh’s Intimate Cinema’. I’ve praised ‘Another Year’ here and here. I’m…
As the two principal characters of ‘Another Year’, appeared on screen, my wife whispered, ‘It’s so nice to visit Tom and Gerri again.’ And, so it was. …
I find writing about art difficult. I struggle, sometimes, with how to describe the artist or her art in the obligatory topic sentence. Rachel Perry Welty poses that problem. No…