Rembrandt’s J’Accuse (2009) and Nightwatching (2007), directed by Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway has always been a visually-oriented director. Originally trained as a painter, Greenaway meticulously structures the images in his films, revealing a care and attention to the...
It happens at the beginning of every semester. Tucked into my tiny mailbox are a stack of about fifty blue and white student evaluations. The scantron sections of these evaluations, where students “rate” their professors in several categories on a scale of one to seven, never seem...
Book Review Works discussed in this essay: The Braindead Megaphone: Essays by George Saunders. Riverhead Books, 2007 In Persuasion Nation: Short Stories by George Saunders, Riverhead Books, 2006 George Saunders’ latest book, and his first collection of essays, The Braindead...
Book Review Works discussed in this essay: The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound by Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Harvard University: Cambridge, 2007: 278 pages) Roberto Unger’s latest book The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound is no less than a call for a completely revitalized,...
