IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN: It was cool to see “In the Mirror of Maya Deren” reviewed on NRO. Deren was an avant-garde filmmaker; I’ve seen some of her work (can’t remember if it was “Meshes of the Afternoon” or just the excerpts of it in the documentary “ITMOMD”) and wasn’t much of a fan, but her book Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti is really excellent. It lays out the basic structure of Vodoun (voodoo), describing the... Read more