September 20, 2017
Film as Poetry’s Modern Sister Art
People often ask me why I think poetry and film go together like peanut butter and jelly, and I say, “Well, it’s kind of like that Videodrome interview,” and they […]
April 2, 2016
Sound and Sensibility: or, How to Make Some Noise
My old high school French workbook carried the title Son et sens, or something very close to that, while my English textbook, in an odd coincidence, was called Sound and […]
April 29, 2015
Drunken Savages with Quill Pens
At one point in his Philosophical Letters on the English, in which he observed the culture and society of France’s rival across the Channel, Voltaire, that paragon of French neoclassical […]
November 16, 2012
The Literary Critic Considered as an Illuminator of Manuscripts
Of the forms literary criticism can take, the lowest asserts the critic’s taste in reading as a fact about a book; the middle attempts to draw general conclusions about […]