“A Dreadful Plague in London Was”
What Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” can teach us about the COVID-19 pandemic.
What Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” can teach us about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leo Braudy on Acting Otherness and the Academy Awards.
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Pete, I have heard you play that melody for all of twenty years.” “Fifteen, but who’s counting?” — Lee Hays and Pete Seeger on The Weavers at...
Plimpton: The Movie
Leo Braudy discusses the Hollywood Sign and what it means as an icon, as a historical artifact, as a monument, as a beacon, along with the history of...
As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads.