The Hamlet Nobody Filmed
The first Hamlet in Elsinore is watched by people who are not watching. Simon Stone opens his film backstage at the National Theatre on
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Before Witnesses – Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Before Witnesses - Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). A hand finds the wall switch, and the living room arrives all at
Glazed with Rose – The Writings of Charles Baudelaire
Glazed with Rose - The Writings of Charles Baudelaire. It appeared in the late summer of 1862 in La Presse, in a series of
Known by Sight
Known by Sight - An Essay on Caravaggio. Three things in this sentence have to be pulled apart. The first is what Baglione saw:
The Heat of the Sentence
The Heat of the Sentence: Grammar, Judgment, and the Unnamed Dead in Albert Camus’s The Stranger
Six words, and none of them his. Mère décédée.
Show Me the Documents
Show Me the Documents: On José Saramago's O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. Before going further I should say plainly what this essay is, because
The Archive and the Wind: On One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Between the cow's placard and Melquíades's parchments, One Hundred Years of Solitude runs its argument. This is not a family chronicle decorated with charming
Authentic Paranoiac Phantoms: The Life, the Work, and the Manufacture of Salvador Dalí
The documentary spine of Dalí's childhood is unusually firm, because his father made documents for a living.Salvador Dalí i Cusí was the notary of
