Into the Woods
“We have been in the woods for 20 months, now we are finally getting out of it,” said Kevin Wilson of the Zach Theatre, referring to the virus-induced shutdown of…
Wild West Texas Comedy
In 4 words, musical comedy is back! After a less than amusing pandemic that has shut down most theatrical productions for more than a year, the arts scene in Austin…
Nate on Comedy
Science and comedy are not so far apart. I don’t mean physicists tell bad puns about how many quarks can dance on the head of a pin, or that comedians,…
The Perils of the Homeless
All of those who attend the theatre are secure in the knowledge they have a place to call home. Few such people think the homeless also might have such a…
Bloom’s Last Book
I do not think Harold Bloom believed in immortality, only long life (he died at age 89 in 2019). What he called poetic immortality was merely extreme longevity, for even…
Mary Oliver and Nature
Review written by Conlan Salgado This is not the age of poetry, nor of great personalities. No one really knows at all what this is the age of, but I…
TAYLOR and CLIFT
Review by Dr. M. Emanuele The book Elizabeth and Monty by Charles Casillo is an enlightening glimpse of the intertwined lives of the movie icons Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.…
Sparta in 4 Volumes
Dr. Paul Rahe (Hillside College, Michigan), has now published 4 volumes in his history of Sparta. The Spartan Regime (2016) served as a prelude to this series on the foreign…
Mayor Pete: The Autobiography
Review by Dr M. Emanuele As I began to read Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg, I was faced with a conundrum. Within the first 20 pages I was ready…
The Making of Milton
In this first of a projected two-volume work, Nicholas McDowell (Univ. of Exeter) offers “a biography of the mind” of the young Milton, “before he became renowned as the writer…