More than fifty years after its opening night, I Confess remains one of Hitchcock’s least popular films. Even upon its release, many believed the film did not live up to the standard Hitchcock set for himself with his acclaimed necrophilic drama Notorious (1946) and The 39 Steps (1935) which he directed at just 35 years…
When I was in sixth grade, I was asked one morning by a neighbor if I would be willing to walk her first grade son to school that day. Perhaps I would have forgotten performing this act of charity if not for a startling comment that the boy made as we approached the school’s entrance,…
I don’t think it would be wrong to say that most people, old and young, aren’t particularly enthralled by old poetry. Metric and stylistic traditions in poetry are things to fear. Too much work has to go into understanding the choices that inform the meaning of the poem. For a lot of people, high school…
Poets don’t usually open for rock shows. But Shea Stadium — no, not the real one, but a DIY venue in a warehouse in Brooklyn filled with Christmas lights and Mets logos — encourages the strange. So on a cold night in early October, poets Margaret Ross and Jenny Zhang and author Leslie Jamison took…