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Exploring life and culture through literature and cinema.
By Matthew Morgan
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"Fire Of Love": On living and dying well
What the shared life – and death – of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft can teach us about a "timely death".
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Marginalia ~ 2022 Highlights
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The Cost of Greatness
On Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day", and what both can tell us about what some will sacrifice to become great.
Jan 20
Marginalia ~ The sounds of terror
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Is "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Missing Something?
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"Midnight Mass": Disturbing the comfortable
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"The Midnight Club": Perfection as the enemy of the Good
On Mike Flanagan's new series and the nihilism of insisting people are perfect as they are.
Nov 4, 2022
Marginalia ~ The spooky season
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Oct 21, 2022
Unseen Terror: How uncertainty feeds our fear
On terror vs horror, the stories of Stephen King, and dancing with death.
Oct 7, 2022
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Marginalia ~ Understanding life backwards
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Sep 23, 2022
Truth Be Told: Do facts matter in fiction?
On objective facts, subjective experience, and whether authenticity is more useful than truth in art.
Sep 9, 2022
Marginalia ~ The Art of Doing Nothing
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Aug 19, 2022
Founders, Builders, Heroes: What we need to fix problems
On the courage required to face our problems and the strength needed to overcome them.
Aug 5, 2022
"Home is so Sad": The sorrow in the conservative soul
How Philip Larkin's 1958 poem describes the sense of loss that haunts the conservative worldview.
Jul 22, 2022
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Unseen Terror: How uncertainty feeds our fear
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"Fire Of Love": On living and dying well
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Is "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Missing Something?
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The Cost of Greatness
"The Midnight Club": Perfection as the enemy of the Good
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