The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope (1875) Trollope never met an 800-page novel he didn’t like. Like Dickens and other Victorian novelists, Trollope wrote many of his novels for periodical publication, and so they were first published one section at a time—and the more serial installments, the more the writer was paid. When those… Continue reading The Way We Live Now
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Yehuda Amichai’s “The Place Where We Are Right”
e.e. cummings’ “Plato Told”
Geffrey Davis’s “Teaching Twelve-Year Olds the Trail of Tears”
The Father
The Father Florian Zeller (2020) Facts for You: Where to Watch: Rentable on Prime Video ($20), Apple TV, Fandango Now Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Rating: PG-13 Names You Might Know: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman Language: English He Said: The experience of watching this film is jarring, disorienting. Less than half an hour into it you are feeling much the same… Continue reading The Father
A.E. Stallings’ “Hades Welcomes His Bride”
Minari
Minari Lee Isaac Chung (2020) Facts for You: Where to Watch: Rentable on Prime Video, Apple TV, VUDU, Fandango Now Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Rating: PG-13 Names You Might Know: Steven Yeun, Will Patton, Yuh-Jung Youn Language: Mostly Korean with English Subtitles She Said: We fired this up in an Oscars-nominated-movie watching quest. I was thinking it would be a… Continue reading Minari
W.H. Auden’s “Ode to the Medieval Poets”
Homeland Elegies
Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar (2020) Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies: A Novel certainly does not read like a novel. I mean, the narrator is a guy by the name of Ayad Akhtar, who is the American-born son of physician parents who immigrated from Pakistan. He was born in Staten Island and raised in Wisconsin, and won a Pulitzer… Continue reading Homeland Elegies
