My Blog Week: February 20 to February 26
All the Latest from Torsade! On Monday, a new Yoharie, where, in the summer of 2016, the Hibbler daughters’ loss, and the coming American alteration, have roots in common. On Tuesday, a reissue of “The Epistles”, from The […]
My Blog Week: February 13 to February 19
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses (part eight) First, let’s note some great things about The Sword Decides!, by Marjorie Bowen. Not just the exclamation […]
My Blog Week: February 6 to February 12
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses (part seven) Last time, I made the point that reviews, whether the book is good or bad, can rely on […]
My Blog Week: January 30 to February 5
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses (part six) Personal prejudices carry no authority, even if one could be shared “kindly”; even if piping up with an […]
My Blog Week: January 23 to January 29
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week A Word on Wordle In this belated edition, I want to do a short, fun bit, on the trending puzzle game Wordle. […]
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 […]