“Dance of Creation”: I Review the Fantastic Ballets Russes Exhibit

June 7, 2013 By

at the National Gallery: …It’s ambitious, and it mostly works. Even the walk over to the exhibit feels like a part of the show: In the cool, white, high-ceilinged landing of the gallery, you walk past George Segal’s 1971 plaster sculpture The Dancers, in which a ring of four calm and focused women practice their [...]

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Hope Stumbles Eternal: “Frances Ha”

May 25, 2013 By

The director of The Squid and the Whale made a movie with the star of Damsels in Distress, and it’s about friendship between women, forgiveness, and coming to terms with your life. Ordinarily this is the kind of sentence I end with, “…and then I woke up.” But no! Frances Ha is real, it’s in [...]

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A conversation with me and Sr. Jeannine Gramick

January 5, 2013 By

at Interfaith Voices. (Scroll down–I missed this when it was posted over the summer.) I haven’t listened to it yet, so apologize in advance for any errors, jerkishness, etc….

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A gnomic utterance

September 11, 2012 By

One of the current liberal projects is the replacement of an old legal and cultural model, in which the paradigmatic public “person” is male, with a new legal and cultural model in which the paradigmatic public person is unisex. Both of these models are damaging because the underlying vision of human nature is false. This [...]

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“Maybe Whit Stillman Knows What It’s Like to Be a Woman”

September 4, 2012 By

Probably the first of many posts I’ll be linking from Helen Rittelmeyer’s new blog.

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Also yes, “The Bear and the Bow” would have been a better title

June 27, 2012 By

since the theme of Brave, which I saw last night, isn’t actually bravery at all. The Good: It’s so pretty! It’s a gloriously pretty movie, and the grisaille scene where the girl and her horse wander through a fog-hung, thorn-infested woods was chillingly beautiful. The visual humor is also adorable, and visual language is used [...]

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