Author: Cliff

June 3, 2006

>Much Ado About Nothing

>Claudio, returned from the wars, falls in love with Hero (who happens to be heiress to a fortune) and proposes marriage. Benedick is a…
June 1, 2006

>Return to the Forbidden Planet

>Part oldies concert, part Star Trek, part Shakespeare—that’s the only way to describe Bob Carlton’s Return to the Forbidden Planet, which I saw at…
May 31, 2006

>The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan

>By John Coyne If you play golf—which I don’t—you might like The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan. For my taste, too much time is…
May 30, 2006

>Glad Day Books

>Do you know about Glad Day Books? It’s a small press begun by Grace Paley and her husband Robert Nichols. I don’t know how…
May 28, 2006

>Now is the Winter of our discontent . . .

>Although it was too beautiful a day to spend indoors, that’s what I did. I met other members of the Harvard Club of Charlottesville,…
May 27, 2006

>Beijing Arts Scene

>Have you always wondered what was going on art-wise in Beijing. No? Um, check these sites out anyway, just for kicks: Maya Kovskaya and…
May 26, 2006

>Come to Me

>by Amy Bloom If I didn’t already know, I’d have guessed from reading this slim collection of stories that the author was a psychotherapist….
May 24, 2006

>The Third Policeman

>Still haven’t read it, but I plan to! I picked it up last fall on the recommendation of . . . someone, can’t remember…
May 23, 2006

>Stacks . . .

>. . . and stacks of books. Mostly I’ve been pretty good these last few months about not buying books, that is to say,…
May 22, 2006

>Ted Genoways

>One of Charlottesville’s free weekly newspapers, The Hook, has a profile this week of Ted Genoways, boy-wonder-rising-star-editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. Because VQR’s excellence…