Lopate on Night and Fog

The Centaur-Seeker himself penned a nice little essay at Criterion, well worth your time, a snippet herewith: The rap against most Holocaust films is that they exploit the audience’s feelings of outrage and sorrow for commercial ends; and, by pretending to put us vicariously through such a staggeringly incomprehensible experience, they trivialize, reducing it to [...]

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LOL: Lopate On Loan

Attention! Attenzione! Achtüng!: Philip Lopate is now on loan. Although it seems strangely distanced in my memory, it was only last evening when I crossed paths with a friend on Northwestern’s campus. We had not spoken to each other since a similar chance meeting one day in the middle of summer — though I like [...]

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