Office Hours - Why don't straight men read novels?
Major themes: A.I. bait, straight men and novels, TikTok killed the author-star
a month ago
Strike! (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein
Major themes: Cow slaughter, Influencing the audience, Everything is montage
2 months ago
The Tears & Smiles of Things by Sodomora (w/ translators Dr. Roman Ivashkiv and Sabrina Jaszi)
Major themes: Reading antiquity, Tears and smiles, Translating translators
2 months ago
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Major themes: Torturing matter, Doomed eroticism, Unfinished modernity
3 months ago
Devil's Yard by Ivo Andrić
Major themes: Narrative confusion, Residue of truth, The eyes have it
3 months ago
Life and Fate (Part 3, Chs. 49-61) by Grossman
Major themes: Bureaucracy, Stalingrad, the meaning of Life and Fate
4 months ago