The Great British Bake Off Series 16 Episode 1 recap: Lemons and Landscapes

Okay, say it with me now: we are so back!!! After a year, “The Great British Bake Off” returns to us. I am back for my fourth and final season of recapping the highs and lows, the stiff peaks and soggy bottoms, of this beloved show. This year’s series opened with an extended “Jurassic Park” […]

I predicted every major plot twist in ‘Severance’ and you can, too!

“I WAS RIGHT!!!!”–-A text that my friends have been seeing in their inboxes more often than they would normally expect. But as I’ve worked my way through “Severance” over the past few weeks, and as more and more of my predictions for the show have proven to be scarily accurate, the desire to gloat at […]

The movie theater experience is dying

I am a proud movie person. I love watching movies, arguing about movies, learning about movies … you get the picture (no pun intended). I can tell you who directed “Sleepless in Seattle,” who won Best Actress at the 2012 Academy Awards and why precisely “Gone With The Wind” still reigns supreme as the highest-grossing […]

Through the Wall

There is a place. On the other side of the wall. I can’t tell you what that place looks like. I see it in my dreams.  A castle. It’s made of marble. And millions of gemstones. They are embedded in every surface. They line the parapets. And spiral upwards in spires. The marble glistens as […]

Phi Beta Kappa address

I was talking on the phone to a colleague last month—I know what you’re thinking: “Where is he going with this?” But bear with me for a moment. He was complaining about something or other as professors do, while I was aimlessly walking around my study at home. I was looking at books and sorting […]