Jennie’s Boy - A Newfoundland Childhood by Wayne Johnston, Knopf, 2022 - Wayne Johnston has lived an unusual life, two portions of which he has now shared through his writing. In his earlier book, ‘The Mystery of Right and Wrong’ (reviewed July 21, 2022) Johnston explored the nature of evil using his late father-in-law as …
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THE CHILDREN’S TRAIN
The Children’s Train - 2024 Netflix movie directed by Cristina Comencini - in Italian with subtitles. In our modern context, it might be hard to comprehend how attractive communism was to vast numbers of people around the globe immediately after WWII. There was a brief window of time after the war ended and before Stalin …
THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA
Netflix - 2013: a documentary directed and produced by Molly O'Brien - My dearest darling wife maintains that there’s more to blog about than politics. The thought of a rolled eye gets me thinking I should give my loyal readers a break from political hilarity this week to have a look at a documentary …
Richard's Left Bank 