Exotic and irrational entertainment

Whew! I'm finally able to start posting again after an exceptionally busy fall semester and holiday season. But I can't simply retur...

The New York Times announced today that one of the winners of this year's MacArthur Foundation "Genius" grants is Alex Ross, ...

Fans of Bollywood should find Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose-Bearer, 1911) to be strikingly familiar: central to the plot is an arranged marri...

Bollyviewer commented on my post on Silsila and Lamhe that every Yash Chopra film has a fatal flaw. After seeing Chandni (Moonlight, 198...

I can't believe it's taken me so long to discover the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. His Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (or...