LET IT ALL GO: 2011 BEST-OF<\/span>. I\u2019m sorry this is so late! <\/p>\n Best books read (nonfiction)<\/span>: David Carr, The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life\u2013His Own<\/a><\/span> and it\u2019s just so different from the others that it deserves its own category, but I read the Sayings of the Desert Fathers<\/span> for the first time this past year, and I know I\u2019ll be returning to them.<\/p>\n Best books read for the first time (fiction\/whatnot)<\/span>: Imre Kert\u00e9sz, Fateless<\/a><\/span> Best movies watched for the first time<\/span>: Of Gods and Men<\/a><\/span> also should be mentioned: Attack the Block<\/a><\/span> (more<\/a>), A Boy Called Charlie Brown<\/span>, Black Caesar<\/a><\/span>, Everything Must Go<\/a><\/span>, The Hunger<\/a><\/span>, I Start Counting<\/a><\/span>, The Island<\/span> (\u041e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0432), Less Than Zero<\/a><\/span>, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum<\/a><\/span>, Macbeth<\/span> (1979), The Nun\u2019s Story<\/a><\/span>, Smoke Signals<\/span>, The Virgin Spring<\/span><\/p>\n Best theater (etc)<\/span>: The Mariinsky Ballet, Anna Karenina<\/span> Best blog posts<\/span>: \u201cStronger at the Broken Places<\/a>\u201c and a bit more service journalism: a list, with notes, of my favorite children\u2019s novels from Diana Wynne Jones<\/a><\/p>\n Best things I wrote (nonfiction, non-blog)<\/span>: \u201cBeyond Liberalism<\/a>,\u201d my essay for Cato Unbound\u2019s symposium on \u201ctraditionalism in a futuristic world\u201d (and the follow-up, \u201cTradition\u2019s Comedies of Error<\/a>\u201c; my other follow-up, \u201cWho Put the Tradition in \u2018Traditional Marriage\u2019?<\/a>\u201c, is fine but not as good) \u2026And wow, I think that\u2019s it, since my Weekly Standard<\/span> reviews are subscribers-only. Uh, I\u2019ll do better this year! Ouch.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LET IT ALL GO: 2011 BEST-OF. I\u2019m sorry this is so late! Best books read (nonfiction): David Carr, The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life\u2013His OwnJohnny Weir, Welcome to My World\u2013a perfect cocktail of humility and glamour!Christopher C. Roberts, Creation and Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
Johnny Weir, Welcome to My World<\/a><\/span>\u2013a perfect cocktail of humility and glamour!
Christopher C. Roberts, Creation and Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage<\/span> (video talk here<\/a> and my comments on it here<\/a>)
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, The Soviet Intelligentsia, And the Russian Orthodox Church<\/a><\/span>
Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker, Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, And Think About Marrying<\/span><\/p>\n
Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea<\/span>
Christopher Coe, I Look Divine<\/a><\/span>
Louis L\u2019Amour, The Lonesome Gods<\/span>
Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze<\/span><\/p>\n
Solaris<\/span>
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains!<\/a><\/span>
Ivan\u2019s Childhood<\/span>
This Gun for Hire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u201d, Arena Stage
\u201cVenus in Fur<\/a>,\u201d Studio Theatre
Mariinsky, Giselle<\/span>
\u201cKing Lear,\u201d Synetic Theater (I ultimately didn\u2019t think this production worked\u2013it was a kind of commedia dell\u2019arte\/Eurotrash interpretation\u2013but it was interestingly wrong!)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Proper Basis for Marriage Is a Mutual Misunderstanding<\/a>\u201d (service journalism)
\u201cHow a Thrill Becomes a Law<\/a>\u201c
Notes from the Oriented to Love<\/a> retreat
A series of posts, which I wish I could redo but which still have value, on the Mountain Goats<\/a><\/p>\n
\u201cFlawed Reflection<\/a>\u201d (my review of the oh-so-controversial \u201cHide\/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture\u201d exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery\u201d
\u201cBreaking \u2018The Rules\u2019<\/a>\u201d (review of Extravagant Expectations<\/span> and Premarital Sex in America<\/span>)
\u201cHow to Convert<\/a>\u201d (title is misleading!)<\/p>\n