The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

The Final Solution: Your Traffic and Weather Reporter, Rachel Maddow

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Rachel Maddow in Seattle (photograph: Paul Schultz) Can you imagine what’s going to happen to a whole generation of outspo...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Spider's Stratagem

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The sacrifice at the heart of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Spider’s Stratagem (1970), which was recently revived at Antholog...
Monday, November 21, 2016

The Final Solution : Milestones and Millstones

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photograph: Dominique James The election of Donald J. Trump will affect some graduate and undergraduate programs across th...
Friday, November 18, 2016

The Final Solution: The Empire Strikes Back

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A lot of people who didn’t want Donald Trump to be elected have been made more uncomfortable about the results than they a...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

The Final Solution: Bring Back the Camps

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Camp David (White House Photo Office) Remember camp Chipewa? It was so much fun. Well, first of all we’re going to send all those bad g...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Inferno

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Ron Howard’s Inferno   mixes Philippa Foot’s famed Trolley Problem with the eponymous Dante poem. For the billionaire...
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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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