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Love Elucidated: The Caesar Series
I have fallen in love. Romantically, swooningly, classically. The love of redness and roses, of wonder and waterfalls. She is kind, she is beautiful, she is intelligent, and she is brave. She holds me in the same breath that she… Continue reading
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Trainspotting (1993, 1996): A Tale of Two Tastes
In the landscape of cultural adaptation, few works demonstrate the metamorphosis of medium as starkly as Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting and Danny Boyle’s cinematic interpretation. Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting was one of the 90s’ defining works of cinema: fresh, exhilarating, narcissistic and… Continue reading
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The Secular Thirst for Aesthetic Salvation
Humans, as storytelling beings, have forever cast themselves as the main characters in the universe’s great epic. All good stories have a beginning, middle and end, and the stories we tell are no different. For almost all of history, people… Continue reading
