Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: January 16 to January 22
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses (part five) At the beginning of this series, I introduced the argument that criticism of popular entertainment is not negligible, […]
My Blog Week: January 9 to January 15
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses (part four) An excerpt from the Rush Limbaugh CPAC speech of 2009: We see human beings. We don’t see […]
My Blog Week: January 2 to January 8
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses (part three) More from John Simon’s review of Star Wars (1977): “The film […] has nowhere near the romantic […]
My Blog Week: December 26 to January 1
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses (part two) There’s a classic scenario, of the beach bully who kicks apart the sandcastle, just when the finishing touch […]
My Blog Week: December 19 to December 25
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses You might have grown up, as I did, with a sense of cultural standards, regarding taste. That is, if it […]
My Blog Week: December 12 to December 18
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Sensitivity Trap (part four) In the mid-70s, feminists, specifically an offshoot of mainstream feminism, associated with lesbians and the music scene, […]
My Blog Week: December 5 to December 11
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Sensitivity Trap (part three) How many of the PC introductions from the 2016 campaign season onwards, came as reaction, and how […]
My Blog Week: November 28 to December 4
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Sensitivity Trap (part two) Unbridled and unassuageable emotional states are the stuff peddled into the cultural discourse by trolls. The idea that […]
My Blog Week: November 21 to November 27
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Sensitivity Trap (part one) [Wash. DC] Evening Star, 11/11/1950, Ad for product Chore Girl [Kansas] Abilene Weekly Reflector, 12/13/1906, article on […]
My Blog Week: November 14 to November 20
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Kirkus Review In retailing, there’s a basic equation to solve. The selling price of a product has to exceed the seller’s purchase cost, […]