Dear friends and reader, Here’s why I’ve not posted for weeks: I wrote this to a literary women, Anne Boyf Rioux, in answer to something she wrote to me on her substack newsletter: I had had ...
https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2024/03/23/hemorrhagic-stroke/
Phiz (Hablot Browne), “Little Dorrit’s Party” — the chapter where we accompany Amy Dorrit and Maggie who walk, sit, and sleep on the streets all night long … I pretend to-night that I a...
A photograph of the snowy Yorkshire Dales (light cover of snow), 2023 (from All Creatures Great & Small) Dear friends and readers, Over the past few years I’ve made a habit of writing Christmas...
https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/winter-solstice-ghost-and-christmas-stories/
Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) and Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw): he has gotten for her an alphabet book Dear friends and readers, As is so common with me, I’m a few years late on this recommen...
Sandra Huller as Sandra Voyter Friends and readers, I rush to write this brief review lest Anatomy of a Fall, an independent film leave the theaters before my reader can find time to see it. I wa...
Friends and readers, A. S. Byatt or Antonia Susan Drabble Duffy (1936-2023) died yesterday, and I want to remember and to praise her work tonight. I direct the reader to the NYTimes obituary whic...
1947 Map of Palestine: from National Geographic Friends and readers, Being of an intellectual disposition, as I have watched with distress and horror the unfolding massacre in and continuing dest...
Timothy Spall as Larry Farquhar and Anne Reid as Ann Moore-Martin In the comments, for comparison: When Harry Met Sally! — how to be a prisoner of genre and not care, two hours of it, and while...
https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/the-sixth-commandment/
Mark Rylance (promotional photo) Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers in Private Lives (Ambassador Theater, London) A not atypical play in DC theater: good older plays are now retro … Friends and re...
David Suchet as Melmotte defying Parliament (2001, TWWLN, scripted Andrew Davies) A fall syllabus for reading Trollope’s The Way We Live Now Online at: https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2023/...