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Eileen Jones’s Cinematic Life

Interviews
Few film critics writing today are as educated, prolific, or funny as Dr. Eileen Jones. A co-host with Dr. Dolores McElroy of the weekly podcast Filmsuck and the author of hundreds of articles about film and TV, notably for the left-wing periodical Jacobin, she is the film critic par excellence of the “age of crap cinema”. One of the most...
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Talia Marshall on Whaea Blue

Fiction
Talia Marshall's debut book Whaea Blue (2024) is a force of nature. Abandoning neutral expressions of praise, New Zealand's reviewers have spoken of it...
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Writing a Life: Kay McKenzie Cooke’s Living Example

Interviews
Kay McKenzie Cooke is a good friend and someone who I think of as embodying the writing life because she is constantly and carefully...
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Touching Time With Anastasia Ames

Original Fiction
This week, continuing my series of conversations on writers talking about their writing (see the previous conversation here), Anastasia Ames discusses her debut novel...
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The Tear Bottle by Annemarie Jutel

Fiction Writing
This post is the very first in a series of interviews I'm planning with talented storytellers about the creative process and also about how...
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Portal to Ur

History
Last year I was lucky enough to fulfil a lifelong dream of visiting the British Museum in London, which is arguably the world’s most...
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The Other Gallipoli

Italy
Note: If you'd like to see an expanded version of a photo, click on its caption. The biggest town near our place is Gallipoli, an...
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Beach Walk

Italy
The other day, John’s thumb suddenly stopped working. It didn’t hurt but it was definitely on strike, to the point he couldn’t pick up...
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Tolkien in Italy

Heroes
When we were in Rome for a few days last week, I decided to check out “Tolkien: Man, Professor, Author,” a new exhibition at...
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Otranto of the East

Ancient
During the summer we spent several weeks in Otranto, one of the most beautiful towns and the easternmost one in all of Italy. Here...
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Hadrian’s Luxury Hideaway

Ancient
One of the most-advertised half-day activities in Rome is taking a guided tour of Hadrian’s Villa and the Villa d’Este (the two sites nearly...
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Tutti i Santi and Turin’s Monumental Cemetery

Cemetery
This week marked two festivals devoted to the Dead: Halloween and All Saints Day. In Italy November 1 is called il giorno di Tutti...
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10 Roman Statues, Fleshed Out

Ancient
Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare? His numbers, though they moved or seemed to move In marble or in bronze, lacked character. But boys and...
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