Columns
Thursday, September 8 2011
Trickster-Heroes in 'Buffy' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
While Spike represents a moral alternative to Buffy’s heroism, the Arthurian Green Knight's tricks -- including a gruesome beheading -- end as mere a parlor game. Spike is the superior trickster.
Reviews
Wednesday, February 23 2011
Give 'O' A Big Fat Zero
Less an addition to the rich fictional literature of American politics and more like an exercise in the cynical business of marketing and publishing.
Monday, September 12 2005
A Woman in Berlin: Six Weeks in the Conquered City by Anonymous, translated by Philip Boehm
Besides documenting the relentless terror and humiliation she and other German women endured, the diary offers a unique window on the German psyche as it comes to terms with Third Reich's wholesale collapse.
Tuesday, April 20 2004
The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous
So, which is it? The good wife afraid to undress in the light, or unabashed dominatrix ready to school the world on the ways of the woman?"
Blogs
Thursday, August 27 2009
Bible Readings for the Home Circle
We went by the butcher and greengrocer and at the charity shop near the station I abandoned a copy of Penelope Fitzgerald's The Knox Brothers…
