Last Call: Poems by Stephen Kessler
Last Call: Poems by Stephen Kessler Essayist, translator, pundit, and poet Stephen Kessler has been courting the muses for over 50 years. In his latest, largest, and 12th collection of poems, Last Call, Kessler's elegant technique explores Santa Cruz, music, lost...
Northern Lights: Images from Per Forsström
If Edvard Munch had been a photographer he might have been Per Forsström, a Stockholm-based new wave polaroid photographer whose growing oeuvre evokes the ambiguity of dreams. And like dreams, Forsström's work is filled with seductive alliances between his skilled...
Rusty and other tales of the Virus
Rusty came on our walk this morning. When you're an adult women without children or pets, you name your hats. And your car, your plants, your pillows, even your laptop. Rusty came from Switzerland, he's red and woolly and sits strangely on my small head. Still he has...
Oscars 2020: A few choice remarks
Yes, Brad Pitt should win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his deceptively casual turn in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In ....Hollywood. A fairytale about the way movies were, or might have been made, with a fairytale ending. A "just so" story that takes...
Parasite: a 21st Century Fable
Parasite, the new film by Korean auteur director Bong Joon Ho, is not only gorgeous to look at, it presents a harrowing satire on the state of class inequity in the 21st century. It's hard to think of a recent film that packs this much metaphorical power. Set in Korea...