Paul Drucker is a middle-aged preacher and psychology professor with a thriving gay conversion ministry, a successful book called Saving Our Boys from the Gay Menace, and a secret–he’s… Read more “A Review of Saving Julian by Mason Stokes”
Month: August 2015
Tender and Wild: A Review of John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone
In The Fair Chase, the extended opening poem of John Burnside’s latest volume of poetry, the narrator hunts a strange creature through the woods and across the countryside. The poem… Read more “Tender and Wild: A Review of John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone”
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965) is one of my very favorite films, and I can’t wait to show it as part of the Third Floor Film Series in… Read more “The Cincinnati Kid (1965)”
A Review of The Only Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper
Jessica Hopper feels music in her bones, in her blood, in the soles of her shoes and the tips of her fingers. This is one of the… Read more “A Review of The Only Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper”
A Review of Keepers by Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel’s Keepers: The Greatest Films–and Personal Favorites–of a Moviegoing Lifetime (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) is a book a cinephile earns the right to write with a lifetime… Read more “A Review of Keepers by Richard Schickel”
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