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Review by dngoldman - Nails and Eyes

dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 17h

My review of Kaori Fujino’s Nails and Eyes whose razor-sharp, lucid prose reveals the subtle dangers underlying this distinctive form of psychological horror. For those who like horror without too much blood and guts
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Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino’s Nails and Eyes contains a novella and two short stories whose r...

Review by dngoldman - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New Translation

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 23h

My reflections on the Tractatus, in its excellent translation by Damion Searls. A work that is as wonderful as it is perplexing.
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Rarely have I enjoyed so much a work that I understood so little of. Wittgenstein himself does...

Review by dngoldman - Space Opera Xanadax Across the Unknown Dimensions of the Galaxy

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 2d

My review of Tom Scioli's artistic throwback comic Space Opera Xanadax. Somewhere Jack Kirby is smiling.
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Scioli takes his passion for Lee/Kirby (especially Kirby) era comic books to a whole new level...

Review by dngoldman - Austerlitz

dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 3d

I recently re-read W.G. Sebald’s last novel before his death, Austerlitz, in a class through the 92nd Street Y taught by Arendt scholar @samantharhill.bsky.social . Here are some reflections from 20 yrs ago and today.
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I recently re-read W.G. Sebald’s last novel before his death, Austerlitz, in a class through t...

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Rabbi Rena Singer - Rosh HaShanah 2025 Sermon

dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 10d

Rabbi Rena Singer on polarization. youtu.be/GwMYQ6Tfndg?...
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YouTube video by Congregation Emanu-El

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Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 10d

Hannah Arendt, writing in 1951 as if about today, on loneliness as the common ground for terror and isolation as a weapon of oppression www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/20/h...

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi… but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between t…

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 10d

My review of Spike Lee's take on Highest to Lowest. Some interesting elements but pretty uneven.
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A ★★★ review of Highest 2 Lowest (2025)

I watched Spike Lee’s new version of the Kurosawa classic. While it’s hard not to compare it to the original, I tried to take the film on its own terms. That effort was made easier by the fact that my...

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 10d

Have you tried any of the Borne books yet?

dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 14d

My wife, and one of my best friends who I often read speculate fiction with both dislike authority. I I liked it quite a bit, because of how it captured the bizarre world of area X in the concept of bureaucracies. That said, it was way too long. Could’ve had the same impact at 200 pages

dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 14d

what vandermeer have you read so far? My wife and I just read the entire series together. We both loved annihilation years ago. She was pretty lukewarm on the second novel, the authority. But I liked it as well, although it was just too long.

Review by dngoldman - Acceptance

dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 14d

My review of the last book of Jeff VanerMeer's masterpiece Southern Reach trilogy. A thought providing very weird end. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/01c9...
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Acceptance, the third book in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, weaves together the c...

This Kuroswa masterpiece is loosely based on Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyach. Like Tolstoy’s short novel, the Kurosawa film focuses on burocrat who has a mysterious illness. about a bureaucrat who work...

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · 14d

My review of Kurosawa ‘s existential tragic-comedy. letterboxd.com/dngolden77/f...

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#japan

A review of Ikiru (1952)

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Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 6

Reading the Iliad | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/sVFhc7W

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Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · Aug 31

Faculty Writing | Joseph Earl Thomas, in Virginia Quarterly Review, on playing Pokémon | buff.ly/NFzkEMe

A ★★★★ review of High and Low (1963)

dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · Aug 31

My review of Kurosawa's High and Low. A tense morally ambiguous contemporary police procedural.
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Review by dngoldman - Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · Aug 31

My review of @agcallard.bsky.social Open Socrates. By the end, my first impulse was to pick up any of Plato’s books I have around and keep reading—and to find someone to read with!
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“What I don’t advise is that we remain as we are.” — Laches The above quote from Socrates, the...

A ★★★★ review of My Dinner with Andre (1981)

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · Aug 25

My notes on My Dinner With Andre. 45 Years later, still a singular experience. And with a radical notion that two people can disagree and still learn something from each other. letterboxd.com/dngolden77/f...
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My Dinner with Andre Even 45 years after its release, My Dinner with Andre remains a singular achievement. It is a film almost entirely about two men having a conversation over dinner, with no plot be...

Review by dngoldman - Authority

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · Aug 23

ICYMI: We are now podcasting . . . more details, and first four conversations here:
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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · Aug 16

My review of Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. A strong work on it's - as if Annihilation was re-written to take place in the Severance universe.
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#SouthernReach
#Vandermeer
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Authority Southern Reach Trilogy, Vol. 2 Jeff VanderMeer VanderMeer’s clever and mostly effec...

Philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation | Aeon Essays

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · Aug 16

Philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation - delighted to see Jay Miller’s excellent Aeon essay published aeon.co/essays/philo...

With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · Aug 15

My review of Weapons. We are the weapons!
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A ★★★★ review of Weapons (2025)

This highly original mystery-horror film leaves the viewer more unnerved than outright terrified—though it is plenty scary. At its core, the film’s central mystery revolves around why the children lef...

TOBIAS AESCHBACHER for IN THE END WE ALL DIE

dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · Aug 9

I learned about this through the Comix Experience Graphic Novel Club. Click here for the author interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmVz...

YouTube video by Comix Experience

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dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · Aug 9

My review of In the End We Al Die, My review of In the End We All Die, a clever, well-thought-out crime novel of the "Losers" variety with interconnected vignettes that add up to a satisfying whole.
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Review by dngoldman - In the End We All Die: A Graphic Novel

In the End is an exceedingly well-executed crime graphic novel, one that weaves interconnecte...