Check out the full review. tinyurl.com/2usztdcw #filmsky #moviereview #Ausefulghost

My review of the film Arrival, and the short story that inspired it. tinyurl.com/375ufv4k #filmsky #moviewreview #tedchiang

“What, in the end, are we to make of the pervasive ways in which our stock stories have exaggerated the Creation and diminished the Reconstruction?” A question that haunts our 250 Anniversary of our constitution. open.substack.com/pub/dngolden... #Booksky #bookreview #BillofRights #AkhilReedAmar

I just contributed with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Help Seamless Bay Area & Transbay Coalition pass a 2026 regional transit funding measure. Contribute here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

New "Warriors Plus-Minus" with Nick Friedell -- on Draymond's potential goodbye presser, the Giannis chase and more on another dramatic night at the end of an era. -Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3Pkv... -Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

My review of Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs A love letter to James. #booksky #Baldwin #bookreview substack.com/@dngolden77/...

28 Years - Bone Temple: Paradise is not quite lost. boxd.it/MwlA #filmsky #moviereview #28yearslater

Jeff VanderMeer's "Borne" asks whether love and personhood are possible when everything is made out of everything elsea. A novel as strange as anything he’s written, but also unexpectedly tender. #booksky #sciencefiction #vandermeer #bookreview open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Writer' include @acmedarryl.bsky.social, @denizcamp.bsky.social, Mariko Tamaki, Marjorie Liu and @paulcornell.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

My take one Park Chan-wook's latest - a poignant political comedy/drama - and yes enough gore. #filmsky #moviereview #Nootherchoice #parkchanwook

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus Kraus’s masterful new novel capped a year where I thought much about WWI and modern society. #booksky #bookreview #DanielKraus open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...

My reflections on reading Moby Dick in 2025 #mobydick #booksky #melville

My review of David Szalay's Booker Prize winning novel Flesh. A terse exploration of society cut off from themselves. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d9aa... #booksky #bookreview #bookerprize #Szalay

Hamnet, Plurality, and The Power Of Theatre My review of Hamnet, with a small dose of philosophy #filmsky #moviereview #hamnet #Arendt substack.com/@dngolden77/...

Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot | Winter-Spring Courses 2026 | BISR Online | buff.ly/1u7uY4V

My review of David Edmond's exceptionally clear biography app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0117... #booksky #bookreview #philosophy

Black Arms To Hold You Up: Ben Passmore A review of Passmore's magnum opus. #graphicnovels #comicbooks open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...

My review of Yoko Ogawa's wicked sharp experimental novel (no, not a short story collection )Revenge. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/cfd8... #booksky #japan #bookreviewsky

Some reflections on Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist. Some things don't change. open.substack.com/pub/dngolden... #kafka #booksky

My Review of the final volume of PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 8. It's a masterpiece and even more relevant today (I'm afraid) #graphicnovels #magna #Urasawa #Tezuka www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

My review of The Japanese Myths -sheds light on all the crazy stuff you see in Anime and Magna! www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #japan #booksky #Myths #magna #anime

Rilke gave us some of humanity's most eternal poetry and, unbeknownst to most, the invention of the modern word "empathy" through his friendship with Rodin www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/14/y...

World’s Fairs: Spectacles Of Capital and Empire | Fall Courses | BISR NYC | buff.ly/fHq50pv

Me during @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Month at BF versus me the day after Thought Bubble Month at BF. (From John Byrne's MAN OF STEEL Superman series)

Paradise is Still Lost My take on Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein #filmsky #moviereview open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...

Gdt’s Frankenstein. Please see beautiful wrenching film on its too short big screen run. boxd.it/btHfdT #filmsky #frankenstein #deltorro

Philosophy seems to address incomprehensible q only of interest to other academic philosophers&inaccessible to the ordinary inquirer. It seems to miss the point of the original philosophical urge&thus seems even more pointless than other arcane academic studies www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...

My review of Assorted Crisis Events Vol. 1 Writer: Eeniz Camp and Artist: Eric Zawadzki. Thought provoking classic Syfi around using time as metaphor. Wild Illustration. #booksky #graphicnovel #comicbook #sciencefiction app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0ed1...

My review of volume 5 of Naoki Urasawa take on the classic Osamu story from the "Astro Boy" series. The underlying hatred between human and robot is chilling. #booksky #magnasky #Urasawa app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d42a...

My review of Michelle defroster's Theory & Practice. Despite the fine writing and interesting premise, I found the book's exploration of it ideas thin. #booksky #bookreview #books2025 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Every bit as touching as you'd expect but it's also a coming of age for San Francisco and the gay life during the 70s/80s. Well worth it. #filmsky #filmreview #sanfranscisco letterboxd.com/dngolden77/f...

This is such a cool comic and there's only 39 hours left to fund it!

My review of Kaori Fujino’s Nails and Eyes whose razor-sharp, lucid prose reveals the subtle dangers underlying this distinctive form of psychological horror. For those who like horror without too much blood and guts #booksky #bookreview #japan #horror app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/686e...

My reflections on the Tractatus, in its excellent translation by Damion Searls. A work that is as wonderful as it is perplexing. #philosophysky #wittgenstein #booksky #bookreview app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2d35...

My review of Tom Scioli's artistic throwback comic Space Opera Xanadax. Somewhere Jack Kirby is smiling. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5e71... #comicbooks #graphicnovel

I recently re-read W.G. Sebald’s last novel before his death, Austerlitz, in a class through the 92nd Street Y taught by Arendt scholar @samantharhill.bsky.social . Here are some reflections from 20 yrs ago and today. #Booksky #bookreview #sebald #jewish app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3915...

Rabbi Rena Singer on polarization. youtu.be/GwMYQ6Tfndg?... #highholydays #RoshHasShanahSermons #Jewish

Hannah Arendt, writing in 1951 as if about today, on loneliness as the common ground for terror and isolation as a weapon of oppression www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/20/h...

My review of Spike Lee's take on Highest to Lowest. Some interesting elements but pretty uneven. #filmsky #moviewreview #spikelee letterboxd.com/dngolden77/f...

My review of the last book of Jeff VanerMeer's masterpiece Southern Reach trilogy. A thought providing very weird end. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/01c9... #booksky #bookreview #Vanermeer #southernreach

My review of Kurosawa ‘s existential tragic-comedy. letterboxd.com/dngolden77/f... #filmsky #Kurosawa #japan

Reading the Iliad | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/sVFhc7W

Faculty Writing | Joseph Earl Thomas, in Virginia Quarterly Review, on playing Pokémon | buff.ly/NFzkEMe

My review of Kurosawa's High and Low. A tense morally ambiguous contemporary police procedural. #filmsky #kurosawa letterboxd.com/dngolden77/f...

My review of @agcallard.bsky.social Open Socrates. By the end, my first impulse was to pick up any of Plato’s books I have around and keep reading—and to find someone to read with! #booksky #philosophysky app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/eec6...

My notes on My Dinner With Andre. 45 Years later, still a singular experience. And with a radical notion that two people can disagree and still learn something from each other. letterboxd.com/dngolden77/f... #filmsky #moviereview #mydinnerwithandrea #🎥

ICYMI: We are now podcasting . . . more details, and first four conversations here: midcenturycinema.org/2025/08/22/n...

My review of Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. A strong work on it's - as if Annihilation was re-written to take place in the Severance universe. #booksky #sciencefiction #SouthernReach #Vandermeer app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fb4c...