Looking Closer Archives
August 2008
August 29, 2008
I had a remarkable encounter at my neighborhood's best coffee shop: Hotwire Online Coffeehouse. Hotwire...
August 29, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen... The Curator, an adventurous foray into examinations of art and culture, courtesy...
August 24, 2008
ROGER EBERT GIVES CHINA'S OLYMPICS A BIG THUMB'S UP Yes, there are criticisms to be...
August 22, 2008
Today, I was interviewed by Paul Asay of Focus on the Family's Plugged In. We...
August 21, 2008
Kathleen Norris's new book, Acedia and Me, is coming in just a few weeks. A...
August 20, 2008
I just realized that Steven Greydanus reviewed Brideshead Revisited, and somehow I missed it. He...
August 20, 2008
This weekend, I discovered a journal that I kept in college. In those pages, I...
August 19, 2008
This is collection of reviews that I found interesting and helpful. The collection will be...
August 19, 2008
What could be better than a blog by Paste's chief film critic Robert Davis? A...
August 17, 2008
An interview with Ron Hansen, the acclaimed novelist who wrote Mariette in Ecstasy and The...
August 15, 2008
Welcome to Reader Mailstrom, a chronicle of stand-outs from the daily maelstrom of Looking Closer...
August 15, 2008
The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines...
August 15, 2008
What a wide range of responses I'm seeing for Henry Poole is Here... Annie Wagner:...
August 14, 2008
ROGER EBERT ON "STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS" It begins: Has it come to this?...
August 14, 2008
The future just got brighter. Can you see that distant gleam on the horizon? That's...
August 11, 2008
In September, I'm rearranging my weekly schedule to find a better balance. Friends have begun...
August 11, 2008
Many thanks to the writers who entered the most recent Looking Closer review contest! I'm...
August 09, 2008
MSNBC reports that Bernie Mac passed away due to complications brought on by pneumonia. He...
August 08, 2008
Hardcovers of Bret Lott's new book Ancient Highway are everywhere. And that's reason for rejoicing....
August 08, 2008
Last week, as I was walking past a newspaper vendor, I stopped in my tracks....
August 07, 2008
I've just returned from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Anne and I enjoyed The Glen...
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