A brief weekly round-up of a few good things.
Lord Byron's biographer has translated some letters from Lord Byron's boyfriend.
Winter behaving like winter. I know it's a pain in the ass but I'm so happy to have some seasonal normalcy.
The nine circles of artist housing hell.
A couple months old, but Ben Whishaw in the Criterion Closet is, in a word, adorable.
All aboard the Night Train.
What do people want from Jane Austen? This was the question I asked myself while I watched the trailer for the latest adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, which came out in theaters last week. The question isn't a knock on the movie, which I haven't seen
I was 15 when I first watched Thelma & Louise. I saw it in the theater with my best friend, and it spoke to us loudly enough that we began to call each other Thelma and Louise (I was Thelma) and I drew a picture of the movie's
October is Horror Movie Month on the Criterion Channel: all but one of its series are devoted to the genre (the exception being "Starring Madonna," which arguably also qualifies, but I'm going to give Madge a break this week). I have a lifelong aversion to horror
Madonna's been having a very good year. In July she released Confessions II, her fifteenth studio album, and it became a both a commercial and critical juggernaut. This past Sunday, she dominated the MTV VMAs, winning seven awards and giving a performance that managed to incorporate both a