Category: Contributor Stuart Mitchner
150 Years Later — The President, The Poet, and the Master
On The Centenary — A Jazz Pilgrim’s Progress Leads to Billie Holiday
Poetry’s Month Begins With “Mad Men,” Wallace Stevens, and Tomas Tranströmer
Looking for Flannery O’Connor on Her 90th Birthday — “The Dreary Chair She Sat in Glowed.”
A Bryn Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale Discovery Illuminates the Literary Year
There’s Something About Mary — An Immodest Proposal for “Downton Abbey”
“Where Do We Go From Here?” — Thoughts on Diaries, George Kennan, and the Demise of a Building
In the Month of Jazz and Black History — Clark Terry and Malcolm X
Reading Lincoln — “In the Great Journal of Things Happening Under the Sun”
Men of Great Spirit and Fine Feeling: Mr. Ciccolini, Mr. Turner, Mr. Lennon, and Mr. McCartney
Neighborhood Meeting Will Air Views On Bike Lane Ordinance
Rolling Down the Road With Bob Dylan: “Shadows in the Night” and “The Basement Tapes Raw”
Thoughts On Martin Luther King In Shirtsleeves and an Unforgettable Film
“There Is No Limit to Paris” — Revisiting the City of Hugo, Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Daumier
Cheering New Work from Paul Muldoon in the Wake of Charlie Hebdo
New Year’s Hopes and Thoughts on Salinger and Cinema, Luise Rainer and the “Other Man”
Over the Top Over Falstaff — Into the New Year With Shakespeare and Sir John
On Christmas Eve: Looking for Shakespeare and Finding Dickens and Two Cats Under the Tree
Brave New World — Tatiana Maslany’s Performance Lifts “Orphan Black” to a Higher Level
“The Soul of All of Us Together” — Scheide, Schubert, Bach, and the Dance of the Organist
When the Purpose is “High and Strong” — Mike Nichols and “The Graduate”
On the Streets of Philadelphia — Discovering the Noir Universe of David Goodis
Poe’s Precipice of the Perverse: Hitchcock Takes the Plunge in “Vertigo”
