Of all the events that unfolded in the first half of the 1970s, none has haunted me more than the blast in an apartment building in Manhattan that claimed the lives of three members of…
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“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him: they crush those beneath them.” – Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights, published first under the alias, Ellis Bell,…
Gioia Woods— a professor at Northern Arizona University and the author of a new enlightening book about City Lights (City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore), the famed San Francisco Bookstore— first…
Virginia Woolf didn’t realize when she began to publish her own work more than 100-years ago that she would birth a cottage industry that would put all her writing – letters and diaries as well…
In the 19th century, the big international drug dealers were the English and the French imperialists who managed, with arms, to hook the Chinese on opium and force them to legalize it. I can understand…
I’d read and heard loads about One Battle After Another and invited a friend who came through the long Sixties to see it with me. She has studied the kind of white nationalism that fuels…
Giacometti’s Last Ride: A Novelby Bart Schneider; Art by Chester Arnold;Kelly’s Cove Press; 2025; $20. Artists, Ezra Pound once observed, were “the antennae” of the human race and provided a “warning system” about the future.…
I’ve never watched a noir thriller on Netflix that hasn’t disappointed me in some way or another. Netflix mass produces noir thrillers, and crime dramas like Vera with Brenda Blethyn the way Warner Brothers once…
Isn’t this what many of us have been waiting for? It is indeed. Coordinated protests against Trump, ICE, and the war that has targeted immigrants who have kept the economy going and kept themselves alive…