May 26th, 2006
And while we’re still at it (and while it’s available online), don’t miss this ruthless—brutal!—review—nay, evisceration!—of DVC from the venerable New Yorker by way of Anthony Lane.
Tony, dear, tell us what you really think.
May 25th, 2006
…or so, at least, declares my son John, whose very funny and insightful review of DVC is now up on GodSpy.com.
Thanks, dear, I needed a laugh.
May 19th, 2006
Though I cannot comment on the DVC film (as film) as such, I must say I am positively gleeful that the consensus is that it’s a dog, if for no other reason than because we can all stop talking (and hearing) about it that much sooner. I am so sick of this subject I [...]
May 13th, 2006
I can’t say I’m too inclined to spend much time, publicly or privately, jawboning over the soon-to-be-released DVC movie. But as someone who spent a good deal of time trying to understand the peculiar, even bizarre nature of much of the controversy over The Passion of the Christ—my thirty-odd page article on that subject [...]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
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Mary loomed large in that springtime of art and letters, the Renaissance; she was to have no less an influence on artists in the ‘Second Spring’.
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