Lizzie has a clear message for us: we ought to care more about Lizzie Borden, whether or not […]
Category Archive: Close Reading
When I have been very good, my four-year-old son will sometimes suggest that we add one of my […]
Part I Episode 1, Cayuga Lake. June 16, 2000. Wet grass, muddy edge, quiet lake lapping the morning. It’s […]
Here’s how it should’ve gone. I watch Martin Scorsese’s 1993 adaptation of The Age of Innocence as a culture-starved […]
There’s a shot in John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place that’s too, too lovely. In it, Emily Blunt appears […]
HBO just released a movie about Joe Paterno’s role in the child rape outrages at Penn State (where […]
The very first episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, which aired in 1969, is set in an […]
W. B. Yeats’s “The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid” is a poem about turning older and being gifted with […]