The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Friday, May 30, 2025

The Price of Everything

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Social Darwinism is epitomized by the art world. No one even pretends that culture is tantamount to enlightenment. Goring a lover of art pre...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

1Q84

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IQ84 by Huruki Murakami Anyone who has ever entered a parallel or alternate universe will tell you it can be treacherous going. You generall...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Sinners

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The default interpretation of Ryan Coogler's Sinners is that the movie is about the expropriation of black culture by whites. Even the ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The General

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The Colonel welcomes you to most cities, if not most blocks. Mattress Firm is trying to knock the fast food business out of business which i...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Bananas

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Bananas are purportedly one of the anodynes for suicide along with the movie of the same title which can still cheer you up. Is Banana Repub...
Friday, May 23, 2025

The Plot Against America

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There are the "new historicism" which calls for revisionism, particularly with regard to the notion of an inviolate past and absol...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Let's Make a Deal

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Trump plainly looks at Ukraine as another real estate deal similar to Greenland, Panama and Gaza The US annexation of Canada (similar to the...
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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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