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It seems absurd to call the period we live in "modern", not just modern times, but modern literature, modern art. In 50 years or ...

I wish I had had a better camera. Profoundly touching that out of the most mundane material, liquor bottles' caps, El Anatsui creat...

Artist Federico Solmi Nietzsche and Freud both talked about Trieb .* They define humans as having egoistische (selfish)  Trieb  (urge)...

Went to the opening reading of the PEN Festival.  First batch of writers reading was great, one Cambodian American woman read about a fa...

A friend of ours lent us his condo in St-George, Utah. Right at the corner with Arizona and Nevada, the latter state offering some seri...

In the 80s physical theater was triumphant. The stage was bare except for a piece of fabric or a triangular piece of set which would pl...

Paul Thomas Anderson should be dead or very old. The others are: Altman, Huston, Hawks, Kubrick, Welles, ....  How does he get his films f...

Went to watch the stampede of rhinoceroses at BAM . The play written by Ionesco can be interpreted as an allegory about fascism, in the vei...

With Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg made a film in the traditional romantic tradition: boy meets girl, boy and girl are suspicious of ea...