Eve Tushnet
She’s here. My review of her new book, My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints, is here. Read more
She’s here. My review of her new book, My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints, is here. Read more
Thoughtful, nuanced, and the kind of thing which will eventually happen, I pray, in the Catholic Church. Read more
I review Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at AmCon. I’ve seen five shows in the past three weeks, as DC’s theater season opens, and this was probably the best one so far. It’s at the Bethesda Round House theater, a block from the Bethesda metro, and I’d definitely recommend it. Read more
You should be reading your kids Oscar Wilde. Read more
The God of Mirrors, by Robert Reilly, is a soapy little novel about Oscar Wilde. It basically goes through the historical record imagining what each triumph or disaster might have felt like. There are lots of Wilde epigrams and assorted flotsam throughout the book, not always placed in a way which makes sense (there’s an allusion to the Marquess of Queensberry looking like a misshapen dwarf at the court of the Spanish infanta, which is… an unusual choice given that... Read more
C.K. Williams, “Repression”: More and more lately, as, not even minding the slippages yet, the aches and sad softenings, I settle into my other years, I notice how many of what I once thought were evidences of repression, sexual or otherwise, now seem, in other people anyway, to be varieties of dignity, withholding, tact… –there’s more which you can find on the google Read more
When Wilde extended a hand, he made no move to take it. “Prayer is the only thing that can console you in this place, prisoner. I trust you understand that. Prayer and a true spirit of repentance.” –Robert Reilly, The God of Mirrors (of which more later) There’s a way of saying true things so that they become false, and a couple recent posts by Catholic women bloggers have drawn attention to one of those ways. First, here’s Calah Alexander... Read more
I actually like this idea a lot: Rarely do you see venues pair professional touring bands with local high school bands on the same bill the way that FAA has done since the beginning. FAA is one of the only places in the country, if not THE only place in the country, where a high school band has been able to open for a national touring act a couple weeks after they played on Late Night with David Letterman. The response... Read more
I review a play, at AmCon. Read more
LA Times (via Ratty): …During World War II, 20,000 European Jews fled to Shanghai, one of the few places in the world they could go without a visa, and one of the few that put no limit on the number of Jews it would accept. Under Japanese occupation, they were squeezed into one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, living cheek by jowl with working-class Chinese such as Wang. “They were good friends. They lived together. They played together. They suffered... Read more
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