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Paul Thomas Anderson—interrupted no more!

I’m rarely a full-blown completist when it comes to any director (with Quentin Tarantino being the lone exception), but every PTA flick I’ve caught has left me stunned, joyful, and deeply moved—And that’s double-y true when I compare it against so much of the dreck and

By Roxton Ford 16 Mar 2026
“Resurgam”: How Helen Burns’ death explains Jane Eyre

“Resurgam”: How Helen Burns’ death explains Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 576 pp. Smith, Elder & Co. Sitting by the window of the library of Gateshead Manor, her cruel aunt’s sprawling English estate, ten year old Jane Eyre sits reading Thomas Bewick’s A History of British Birds. Moments later, John, her piggish brat of

By Roxton Ford 28 Jan 2026

Garfield, Guiteau, and the Alienated American

So I’ve been watching the (mostly) very good Netflix mini-series “Death by Lightening.” If you haven’t yet watched it, it’s about the unlikely presidential campaign and early administration of President James Garfield, and the events leading up to his tragic assassination by Charles Julius Guiteau, a crazed

By Roxton Ford 06 Jan 2026
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