John Kelly's "Sophisticated Boom-Boom": Review Posted to Amazon US today in edited form. William Gibson recommended this in su...

Ulysses: En-Gendered Perspectives: Review Posted on Amazon US today. Yeah, I know, the title makes it sound either intriguing or boring. Fol...

Heat Wave Lifeboat Ethics: an L.A. vignette. This sums up the dichotomy between the haves and have-nots in our city of teeming masses pantin...

Delusions & Sex & God A short entry, on "The God Delusion" not yet read. I admit that I came across a random excerpt by Ri...

"The Stories of J.F. Powers": Review I have reviewed on Amazon and this blog the earlier collections in their original format,...

J. F. Powers' "Look How the Fish Live": Review This, the third and final collection of his stories, picks up in the era before...

Mother Teresa, Patron Saint of Agnostics? James Martin, the Jesuit priest whose "My Life with the Saints" (reviewed by me here and...

Why do we let those close to us lick the same spoon, or eat off the same dish? Why kiss away tears but not snot? How do we learn to live wi...

Richard Pearce (ed.) "Molly Blooms": Review "A Polylogue on 'Penelope' & Cultural Studies" (U. of Wisconsin,...

Norman Mailer's "An American Dream": Review I remember Ancient Evenings for its erotic charge, its graphic battlescenes, and t...

Pierre Klossowski's "Sade My Neighbor": Review This translation of "Sade mon prochain" collects two essays by Kloss...

"The Lord is in this place. How dreadful is this place." A weekend trip to San Diego so my wife could see the Dead Sea Scrolls exh...

Mark D. Jordan: Review Is it a sign of my own complicity that when reading "The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology" (U of C...

It's Frank's World, We Just Live in It? So my wife's button long lost once summed it up, purchased at the one-time, pioneering, ...

J. F. Powers "Morte d'Urban": Review Re-reading this novel, the winner of the National Book Award for 1962 and the author'...