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A last (?) note on Moonrise Kingdom 's puerility. Stephen Crane is a master of the particular version of puerility; I think in particu...

I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom , which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten...

[ Spoilers for Moonrise Kingdom.] ** There is hardly a clearer example of Foucauldian power than the Boy Scouts—a most codified set of ...

Beddini (reading a telegram): 'Come ahead stop stop being a sap stop you can even bring Alberto stop my husband is stopping at your hote...

I was just made aware that there is a movie coming out called How Do You Know ( trailer ). I would dearly love for this to be an adaptation...

In Nest , Mei-mei Berssenbrugge invokes the horrors of cuteness in a poem titled "Dressing Up Our Pets," a poem that, as I posted ...

Oh boy. ( So to speak. ) Fall semester is in full swing, and and I'm having to put Gertrude Stein and Susy Clemens on hold for a while i...

Okay, does anyone not think this is a shout-out to Dreyer and Falconetti ?

Woman (defensively): "I liked her! I thought Amy Adams was adorable!" (Overheard outside the Elmwood Theater as I walked by this e...

A very cool short film, featuring typography. (Via @christianbok .)

Apropos of a conversation begun here , continued here , and continued further here . ...she is to conceive daughters as well as sons and son...

I saw Sita Sings the Blues last night in San Francisco. It was very much worth watching on the big screen, but you can also watch it for fr...

There's an article in the NYT just now on the proposed Berkeley Art Museum . I quite like the new design, although I don't see wha...

A few more literature-in-the-media moments: Paul Krugman writes in the NYT : Economic data rarely inspire poetic thoughts. But as I was con...

Recently Hillary showed me this video of Feist singing “1, 2, 3, 4” for Sesame Street . I found the video very funny, and particularly enjoy...

As I've mentioned before , teaching A Room of One's Own forced me to face up to the overwhelming prevalence of the girl-in-drag-has...

I can't help noticing how much buzz is about regarding the recent Batman film. But I'm puzzled that no one yet seems to have poin...

I recently re-read a chapter from Mary Anne Doane’s Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, and Psychoanalysis , in which Doane tries to teas...

It's the second day of MLA, and I'm sort of horrified that there's just as much more to come. I've heard many good talks and...