The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Friday, March 20, 2026

Inscriptions

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As the world shatters into oblivion, old inscriptions have a new urgency and profundity. Here is one found in a second hand copy Library of ...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Political Violence

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Can you be against political violence and still wish that certain politicians were dead? Or the very un Christian question of people in gene...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Royal Flush

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How many fortunes have been lost in the course of trying to stanch a loss? A pile of chips is an ineradicable memory. You are flush with mon...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Ineptitude

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Andrew Marvell Does everyone have the opposite of halcyon days, perhaps days of ineptitude? You may have been a gawky kid who wasn’t good at...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Sirat

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Oliver Laxe's  Sirat , which has been taken seriously by Manola Darghis, Robert Ebert and virtually every other major critic is simplist...

Hegseth or Goring?

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The difference between Hermann Goring and Pete Hegseth is that the former was a connoisseur of art, who, in fact, sought to steal the great ...
Friday, March 13, 2026

The Magus

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Is it easier to end something in fiction than in life? For that matter what’s the difference? Is arranged marriage tempting fate? Your ances...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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