Written and directed by Preston Sturges. 1948. Unfaithfully Yours is a much odder movie than I expected and just why it works I am not ...

By chance this morning, I came across a recording of Kerstin Thorborg (1896-1970), a Swedish contralto, singing Erda's warning to Wotan,...

Updated: Please see below. I feel remiss for not mentioning in our recent discussion of Santayana's Three Philosophical Poets: Lucre...

Last week at The Hannibal Blog , Andreas Kluth put the question, "Greatest thinkers: Greeks or Germans?" Of course the challenge i...

The music of Richard Wagner and the writing of J. R. R. Tolkien are both considerable interests of mine so you can expect substantial writin...