Tag: biography

by M.Bijman May 5, 2017

Not much of a mirror – You Don’t Look Your Age, by Sheila Nevins

Update: On Dec. 18, 2017, the New York Times reported that Sheila Nevins is exiting HBO after 38 years. TheContinue Reading

by M.Bijman September 29, 2016

Discussion of writing style Review of memoir Review of new book

With love and fatigue from writer and reader – Report from the interior, by Paul Auster

Paul Auster has been one of my favourite authors for many years, but not one whose name would come directly toContinue Reading

by M.Bijman June 13, 2014

CanLit Discussion of genre Review of new book Review of new non-fiction Video

Famous Men for Father’s Day: An Author, an Astronaut and a dead Absurdist

Manly books about famous men In celebration of Father’s Day coming up, here are some books about men I admire thatContinue Reading

New York Review of Books

‘The Fatal Conscience’: Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico’s Greatest Poet April 26, 2018

Julia de Burgos’s life spanned Puerto Rico’s full entrenchment as a colony of the United States, while her public life as the island’s most celebrated and acclaimed poet took place against the backdrop of the twentieth-century’s global conflict between fascism and democracy. The problems Puerto Ricans face today, as their impoverished island fights for survi […]

Molly Crabapple

Art of the Title – Review of Film Title Sequences

10 Women of Title Design – Part Four March 8, 2018

In 2015, we published our first feature article in celebration of International Women’s Day entitled 10 Women of Title Design. We have returned each year since with a new group of 10 women in the title design industry to celebrate. This year, we are ecstatic to present another 10!Here at Art of the Title, our mission is to champion the great work of title de […]

Star Trek: Discovery (2017) January 30, 2018

“We come in peace, that's why we're here. Isn't that the whole idea of Starfleet?” — Michael Burnham How do you boldly go where many have gone before?After six television series, thirteen feature films, and countless other pieces of media, Star Trek’s fabled final frontier is now well-trodden ground. For Star Trek: Discovery, the seventh TV se […]