All the Timeless Traditions of Slavic Christmas fish, potato and cabbage with saladka at Lidka’s and Christopher’s with Jacob and Alexander and families … 4 Christmas Stories You’ve Probably Overlooked.
Christmas at Sea - Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Founded by Welsh merchant David Jones in 1838, DJs has a longer history than many of the most revered retail brands in the world. It is older than Harrods and Selfridges in London, Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Death, Consolation, and 'Life Goes On'.
… it is a point of phenomenology that love intends to reach the very haecceity and ipseity of the beloved: in loving someone we mean to make contact with his or her unique thisness and selfhood. It is not a mere instance of lovable properties that love intends, but the very being of the beloved. It is also true that this intending or meaning is in some cases fulfilled: we actually do sometimes make conscious contact with the haecceity and ipseity of the beloved. In the case of self love we not only intend, but arrive at, the very being of the beloved, not merely at the co-instantiation of a set of multiply instantiable lovable properties. In the case of other love, there is the intention to reach the haecceity and ipseity of the beloved, but it is not clear how arriving at it is possible.
Antonín Bajaja (1942-2022)
Czech author Antonín Bajaja has passed away; see, for example, the Idnes.cz report.
His prize-winning Burying the Season has been published in English by Jantar; see their publicity page.
See also the Dana Blatná Literary Agency author page and the CzechLit information page.
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Best movies of 2022
The Lost Daughter, TV but still good, a movie of sorts, based on Ferrante.
Belle, spectacular Japanese anime.
Licorice Pizza, a good normal movie, captured California well.
Compartment Number Six, with a new meaning after the war of course.
Petit Maman, French, short, plays mind games with you, profound.
The Quiet Girl (Irish)
Vesper, Lithuanian, dreamy, Tarkovsky influence but faster-paced, an underrated movie this year.
Tár, really quite good and interesting.
Decision to Leave, Korean crime drama with Hitchcockian twists and inspirations.
The Fabelmans, Ignore the cloying preview.
Saint Omer, French-Senegalese courtroom drama.
Clytaemnestra, Korean movie, one hour long.
EO, Polish movie about a donkey, better than you think.
Overall an abysmal year for Hollywood, a pretty good year for the movies. I haven’t yet seen Oppenheimer or Bardo, so their absence on the list should not be taken as a negative signal.
