Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. When I first read The Brothers Karamazov, there were chapters that I read quickly and without much thought. Either they were to…
With the first season of Amazon’s Rings of Power released and a new season coming in 2024, many are discussing the merits of adapting Tolkien and different approaches. Hence, it’s a good time to look…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. Schopenhauer writes somewhere in The World as Will and Representation that music ought not to represent. It is many years ago that…
By Nathan Stone Movies have had a parasitic relationship to literature from practically the film medium’s beginning. George Méliès took A Trip to the Moon with Jules Verne in 1902. Edison created a Frankenstein in…
Click here to read the previous installment. An Apocalypse of Cockatoos: From Hell From Hell feels in many ways like a departure from Alan Moore’s prior work. It isn’t a superhero story like Miracleman, Captain…
Click here to read the previous installment. … And I’m Going to Bring the House Down: Dystopia in V for Vendetta Thus far, this series has suggested that many of Alan Moore’s great comic book…
Click here to read the introduction and here to read the previous chapter. There’s an important little passage in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov which has in it the seed of an important argument. The great…
Today, November 18, is the 70th birthday of Alan Moore. Click here to read the previous installment, about the beginning of Alan Moore’s career in comics. I Dream a World of Dreams Fulfilled: Utopia in…
Much thanks to Brenton Dickieson and Sørina Higgins, for inspiring and encouraging this piece. Speculative fiction (fantasy, horror, science fiction, etc.) or spec fic has experienced many changes in the last generation. An especially shocking change for…
The Latin poet Catullus, contradicting the mythology that did not want the union between Helen and Paris to be fruitful, surprisingly called adultery a “fruitful seed.” It will be difficult to find in literature a…
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