Andy Nicastro

Thursday, August 26, 2021

On Being Translated

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It is worth saying something about the condition of the writer who finds himself being translated.  Being translated is not work for eithe...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Happiness

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Have you sometimes thought, dear sweet friend, how many tears the horrible word “happiness” is responsible for?  If that word didn’t exist w...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

The Values of the Enlightenment

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I believe that one of the few things that stands between us and an accelerated descent into darkness is the set of values inherited from the...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Local Hero

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Watched Local Hero this weekend.  So good.  I saw it when it first came out in 1983 but haven’t seen it again in many, many years.  It hol...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Razzia sur la Chnouf

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If you were to compile a list of the coolest movie stars who ever lived, there is little doubt in my mind that Jean Gabin would be in the t...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Respectable People

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Respectable people…What bastards!       - Emile Zola, The Belly of Paris (1873)
Thursday, November 21, 2019

The Danger of Indignation

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Indignation and goodwill are not enough to make the world better.  Clarity is needed, as well as charity, however difficult this may be to ...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Cousinly Love

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The Americans and the English are bound together at present by the ties of war, and by that sort of cousinly love which expresses itself ...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

The Problem with Opinions

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The problem with opinions is that one is stuck with them.       - Susan Sontag, “The Conscience of Words” (2001)
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