David Goldman (@dngolden77) Transcending the era and theatre itself, Brook get at what makes public art indispensable.

We need Brook’s holy theatre more than every
substack.com/@dngolden77/...

#booksky
#theatre

Exit 8 A Film by Genki Kawamura Hell is other people, and perhaps worst of all, yourself.

Exit 8 A Film by Genki Kawamura
open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...
#filmsky
#filmreview
#japan
#videogames

My review of #TerryDactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...
#booksky
#bookreview

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Creating space for freedom

The back-and-forth dialogue in the essay—between herself and herself, and then between herself and her reader—parallels what Hannah Arendt later called the “two-in-one” of thinking. My fuller musing below. open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...
#woolf
#booksky
#bookreview
#arendt

Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario A director and society on the verge

A film on the brink of change - for the director and ourselves. open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...

#filmsky
#filmreview
#villeneuve

Yes - the push and pull is exactly right. It's not a straight line

David Goldman (@dngolden77) The dialectics of popular music - a super entertaining history of folk-rock that shows how music evolves in response to cultural and commercial interests.

The dialectics of folk-rock substack.com/@dngolden77/...
#booksky
#bookreviews
#dylan
#Byrds
#folk

David Goldman (@dngolden77) Sorcerer (1977) — A Review Few excel at building and sustaining tension like William Friedkin, particularly with characters in close quarters. Think of the subway sequences in The French Connection o...

The much under appreciated Friedkin masterpiece The Sorcerer.
#filmsky
#moviereview
#friedkin
substack.com/@dngolden77/...

David Goldman (@dngolden77) Now this is a Wonder Woman worthy of her greek myth origins. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/039006de-9155-446a-ae44-a6ab612fa936

The Wonder Women we need. substack.com/@dngolden77/...
#wonderwomen
#ultimate
#DCcomics
#comicbooks

David Goldman (@dngolden77) “To exclude the anecdotal aspect of the image, this is what I try to do in the graphic arts” Jean Widmer. There is no end to the nearly perfect graphic. Here are a couple.

substack.com/@dngolden77/...

City of Big Shoulders.

Dostoyevsky, just after his death sentence was repealed, on the meaning of life www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/05/d...

David Goldman (@dngolden77) “To exclude the anecdotal aspect of the image, this is what I try to do in the graphic arts” Jean Widmer. There is no end to the nearly perfect graphic. Here are a couple.

substack.com/@dngolden77/...

My review of Han Kang's haunting elusive "We Do Not Part" A companion piece to her earlier "Human Acts". tinyurl.com/sdd9xb93
#booksky
#bookreview
#hankang
#nobelprize

I've been offline for health reasons but in light of today's unequivocal, and wholly unjustifiable act of American imperialism against Iran, I wanted to reshare this piece which is sadly still timely two years after it was written...

Check out the full review. tinyurl.com/2usztdcw
#filmsky
#moviereview
#Ausefulghost

My review of the film Arrival, and the short story that inspired it.
tinyurl.com/375ufv4k
#filmsky
#moviewreview
#tedchiang

“What, in the end, are we to make of the pervasive ways in which our stock stories have exaggerated the Creation and diminished the Reconstruction?” A question that haunts our 250 Anniversary of our constitution. open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...
#Booksky
#bookreview
#BillofRights
#AkhilReedAmar

Support Seamless Bay Area & Seamless Bay Area Please consider making a donation to Seamless Bay Area and Transbay Coalition. Your support helps us sustain and scale up our work transforming public transit into a fast, affordable, well-connected, ...

I just contributed with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Help Seamless Bay Area & Transbay Coalition pass a 2026 regional transit funding measure. Contribute here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Draymond's Last Game?

New "Warriors Plus-Minus" with Nick Friedell -- on Draymond's potential goodbye presser, the Giannis chase and more on another dramatic night at the end of an era.

-Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3Pkv...
-Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

A Special Book Club in Response to Minnesota

open.substack.com/pub/samantha...

Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs Love is complicated; So is Jame

My review of Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
A love letter to James.
#booksky
#Baldwin
#bookreview
substack.com/@dngolden77/...

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.

28 Years - Bone Temple: Paradise is not quite lost.
boxd.it/MwlA
#filmsky
#moviereview
#28yearslater

Jeff VanderMeer's "Borne" Rise of the (bio) machines

Jeff VanderMeer's "Borne" asks whether love and personhood are possible when everything is made out of everything elsea. A novel as strange as anything he’s written, but also unexpectedly tender.
#booksky
#sciencefiction
#vandermeer
#bookreview

open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...

Covers of comics and graphic novels from writers nominated in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025.

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Writer' include @acmedarryl.bsky.social, @denizcamp.bsky.social, Mariko Tamaki, Marjorie Liu and @paulcornell.bsky.social.
Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

David Goldman (@dngolden77) Nobody can make audience squirm like Dir. Director Park Chan-wook.  This time he does as much with humor and a critique of capitalism as with gore. But don’t worry - there is gore. https://boxd.it/ct...

My take one Park Chan-wook's latest - a poignant political comedy/drama - and yes enough gore.
#filmsky
#moviereview
#Nootherchoice
#parkchanwook

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus A Year of WWI Thinking: The Magic Mountain to Fussell to Kraus

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
Kraus’s masterful new novel capped a year where I thought much about WWI and modern society.
#booksky
#bookreview
#DanielKraus
open.substack.com/pub/dngolden...

Moby Dick and the Sublime It’s 2025 — everyone needs a lifeboat.

My reflections on reading Moby Dick in 2025
#mobydick
#booksky
#melville

Review by dngoldman - Flesh In a world where many novels depict a lack of interior life, David Szalay’s terse novel Flesh ...

My review of David Szalay's Booker Prize winning novel Flesh. A terse exploration of society cut off from themselves. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d9aa...
#booksky
#bookreview
#bookerprize
#Szalay

Hamnet, Plurality, and The Power Of Theatre A review of Hamnet, a film by Chloé Zhao

Hamnet, Plurality, and The Power Of Theatre
My review of Hamnet, with a small dose of philosophy
#filmsky
#moviereview
#hamnet
#Arendt
substack.com/@dngolden77/...