Exotic and irrational entertainment

Cover of Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023. Image source: BookPage Anne Lister, a member of...

Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, 1980s. Image credit: David Corio. Image source: The Guardian On Tuesday  The Guardian carried an obitu...

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers . Starring Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Ivers), Van Heflin (Sam Masterson), Lizabeth Scott (Toni Marachek)...

Television For us this was an especially rich year for television series, beginning in May with PBS's  Miss Austen , which also rounded...

As with the other posts in this series, the recordings listed below are my favorites of those first experienced in 2025. I've listed the...