In Medias Res

It's very easy--and entirely justified--to write A Flock of Seagulls off has a band who only manged to break out in the early days of MT...

Stolen without apology from the Twitter feed of Kieran Healy , one of the greatest (and wisest) academic wits of the whole blogosphere. As h...

Some might say the reverb on the lead guitar is too loud and fuzzy, but I think it excellently counterpoints Richard Butler's voice, gro...

I received a copy of Brian Jay Jones's wonderful, if somewhat workman-like, biography of Jim Henson for my birthday last December, and I...

I've embarked on a project to read the entire Old Testament (using the Revised English Bible and Robert Alter's translations and co...

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] From 2003 to 2005, we lived in Craighead County, Arkansas , while I taught at Arkansas State Univ...

Last night my wife's Twitter feed went nuts, and we ended up--like thousands of other Americans, I'm sure--opening up the laptop and...

I don't remember when I first saw To Have and To Have Not , but I suppose it was probably during my frustrated early college years--wh...

Last night, Melissa and I went back and (like probably many thousands of people) watched again Robin Williams's classic comedy concert, ...

Damn, damn, damn, damn . Depression. Suicide. What a terrible, terrible loss. Of course, I can be critical. Robin Williams manic, surreal,...