Arts
‘Spotlight’: In Praise of Ink-Stained Wretches
It should be boring. Instead it’s riveting.
Arts
Arts
Introverts, Extroverts and the History-Directed
When I was young it was common to hear or read about two broad classes of people: introverts and extroverts.
Arts
‘Beasts of No Nation’: Casualties of War
To the small handful of brilliant movies about the madness of war — among them “Apocalypse Now” and the Soviet “Come and See” — we must now add Cary Joji Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation".
Arts
Asceticism and Literature in the Middle Ages
Much of my scholarly research over the years has concerned the relationship between monastic thought and practice and general artistic and cultural developments in medieval Europe.
