Art with Saints

In the early 1980's I worked with El Salvadoran refugees. They fled the civil war in El Salvador which lasted from 1980-1992. They shared with me what was happening in their country and the atrocities committed. [Read more] Recently:    Luna Digest, 3/16    Fictionaut Faves, 3/15    Checking In With Metazen […]

Is that an Irish song? - I hope so. […]

Bong Joon-ho's new film Mother is a hard one to pin down. On the surface, the South Korean filmmaker, who successfully toyed with genre conventions in The Host and Memories of Murder, has created a classic sleuth story. The story of a devoted mother who attempts to prove her son's innocence  after he is arrested of murder is also surprisingly funn […]