Film, Music, Visual Arts

The Stupid Fate of Scary Movies and the Smart Fears of Life

My extended family has other obligations on Halloween, so we agreed tonight is the night some of us will watch a scary movie on the side of a neighbor’s building. I am not a fan of horror movies, for some of the same reasons I do not consider Stephen King a […]

John Griswold

The Frankenstein We Deserve

The 1818 novel Frankenstein, which has birthed so many subsequent versions, was itself an update of the Promethean myth for Mary Shelley’s time. We might fairly call Frankenstein its own myth now, told by each teller in her own register. William Gass would say these versions are from “the realm of Forms,” and are […]

John Griswold