Exotic and irrational entertainment

...books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions

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Friday, July 31, 2026

In memoriam: Robert Cole

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Robert Cole in Zellerbach Hall, with the set from Mark Morris's The Hard Nut onstage. Set designed by Adrianne Lobel after Charles Bur...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

"Farewell to hope": Baldassare Galuppi's L'Olimpiade

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DVD cover for Baldassare Galuppi's L'Olimpiade (The Olympiad, 1747), with Romina Basso as Megacle (left) and Ruth Rosique as Arist...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

"What have we done?": The Paying Guests

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Sarah Waters in the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in 2014. Image source: The Independent As regular readers are aware, ...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Delightful French films, part 2: The Crime Is Mine

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Pauline (Rebecca Marder) and Madeleine (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) in François Ozon's The Crime is Mine . Image source: RMITV.org What if pl...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Delightful French films, part 1: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

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Agathe (Camille Rutherford) failing to make progress on her novel in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life . Image source: Film Obsessive The French...
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