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“Band Practice” [by Terence Winch]
Band Practice We have three bottles on the kitchen table. One is filled with the music of a hundred old hornpipes in the key of D…
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Here comes the new “Hudson Review”
A magazine of historic importance, which published A. R. Ammons back in 1960. The Hudson Review, Autumn 2022 (Volume LXXV, No. 3 ESSAYS The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion Tess Lewis A Donne…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE
Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On was published yesterday. The book engages with the perilous now—the climate crisis, political cruelty, marginalization—while reaching back in time (the comfort women of…
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“An Irish Halloween Blessing”: On Terence Winch’s Birthday
On Terence Winch's Birthday Isn't it beautiful? Johann Zoffany's painting of a production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, 1770, and Terence sent me the image to accompany the note he writes each…
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Film Review: TRUFFAUT, François: The Last Metro (1980) [by Lewis Saul]
Truffaut (1932-1984) had intended to make a sort of trilogy about the living arts; first about cinema (Day for Night [1973]); theatre (this film); and vaudeville, which he didn't live long enough to make.…
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“Epiphany” [by David Lehman]
The announcer for the oppositionis so one-sided in his commentaryso unabashedly partisanthat I dash off a pissed-off postlikening him to the Yankees’s Phil Rizzutobut without Phil’s endearing traitsthat made him perfect for the roleof…
