I hope the book is wiser than my protagonist. Mockingbird is told in the first person; it is an intensely subjective story. Mia is a good person, a thoughtful person. Her love and faith are as strong as storms. But her refusal to fully acknowledge her own unearned,...
Part 1 of a 3 part essay: What I make of movies, and what they make of me, for Numéro Cinq “Reading Trimingham’s reflections on film is for me like reading someone else’s love letters. It led me to reminiscing about my own film loves, and here, specifically,...
Part 2 of a 3 part essay: What I make of movies, and what they make of me, for Numéro Cinq read “The Horror” here: Numéro Cinq at the Movies | What I Make of Movies, and What They Make of Me: The Horror — Julie...
What I make of movies, and what they make of me: an essay in 3 parts for Numéro Cinq “Numéro Cinq at the Movies readers should recognize Julie Trimingham‘s name from one of our first entries when we featured her lovely, haunting triptych of films beauty crowds...
The philosopher who makes occasional Mockingbird appearances, both in and out of disguise, is Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). In addition to famously wagering on God, Pascal contributed to the theories of probability, geometry, and vacuums. He invented an early calculator,...
The compulsive display of lives undone was what brought me back to the Museo de la Revolución. Early on, I’d checked it off my list of sights seen along with the Museums of Coins, of Cards, of Dance, of Tobacco. One afternoon, I found myself again entering the former...
