Staging Candidness: Photography, candidness, and cultural production
Since the dawn of photography as an art form, photographers have been chasing the almost-holy candidness of life. Of course, this makes perfect sense: A work of candidness is not…
Eli Lerdau
How del Toro tells a Freudian story in “Frankenstein”
This past weekend saw the release of Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” published initially in 1818 and again in redacted form in 1831. Shelley wrote the original…
Trump is a threat to our national soul
There is no document more integral to our nation, both culturally and legally, than the Constitution of the United States. It is pasted across the country:the halls of legislative buildings…
We cannot ignore the attacks on academia
I grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I could see Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello from my elementary school playground. My parents are professors at the University of Virginia (UVA). At the…