Happy birthday, Les Misérables! No, no – not the musical, the book
My hero. (Engraving by Gustave Brion.) It was, perhaps, my first love affair. How old was I? Ten, eleven, maybe? It was the book I read late at night, pushing a blanket under the crack under my...
View ArticleThe “scale of appraisal”: Woolf, Tsvetaeva, and Inspector Javert
Cause of death? Last night, I finally made the trek to see Les Misérables with my daughter and her friend. The film has many nice touches – among them, Russell Crowe, as the solitary Inspector Javert,...
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