Arts
Saint Augustine at Downton Abbey
For my scholarly writing last week I needed to consult very briefly a Latin text of Augustine’s Confessions.
Arts
Arts
Does ‘Watchman’ Hit Closer to Home Than ‘Mockingbird’?
"To Kill a Mockingbird," published in 1960, had already achieved a kind of canonical status by the autumn of 1963 when I taught my first class of freshmen at the University of Wisconsin.
Arts
‘The Wolfpack’: Growing Up in Prison
"The Wolfpack" is a once-in-a-lifetime story that deserves — demands — a brilliant documentary filmmaker to do it justice.
Arts
‘The Overnight’: Old School Sex
“This is California. Maybe this is what dinner parties are like.”
