The Cinema: a little script INT: SUBWAY STATION, IRT, NEW YORK, MARCH 23, 2014 MEDIUM SHOT: Subway platform and train and modest crowd ACTION. Mark enters the door of the…
On the morning of August 17, 1918, Private Vito Vitelli, of the American 21st company of the 151st Depot Brigade was lying in a foxhole in the Argonne Forest when…
[continued from 84.8] Les Americanes When it comes to rocky love affairs there is also the on/off relationship between France and America that goes back to the French and Indian…
Une Plume, un Cahier, un Café Many people go to Paris to write; or at least they seem to feel an obligation to write. Perhaps that is because as Henry…
In 1989 I lived in Paris while teaching at the University of Paris VII. I had to arrange my own housing and at first lived with an elderly Englishwoman in…
I really shouldn’t be weighing in on this for a couple of reasons (there probably are more than a couple), but things have been kind of quiet around here and…
There is a curious contrast between the macho, muscular martial grimacing images that are usually trotted out to promote and recruit for the military branches and in fictional representations of…
As I was sharing pizza with my former students in Hong Kong this past April not far down the street from my flat two demonstrations were taking place: and Occupy…
When the creation myth is explained to us it comes with the idea that all creation comes from the void, from nothing, from what was not there in the beginning.…
One of the very first phrases that are learned in my high school French class was a response to the simple salutation, “Comment allez-vous?” The (presumptuous) response offered in my text was, “Je…