Month October 2026

Four Ways of Telling the Same Story

What fiction has done with this question over almost sixty years “Fiction never solves the problem; it makes it feel solved, which is not the same thing.” This series has returned to fiction several times, not as an interesting embellishment…

Crying for What Does Not Feel

Terminator, the other side of the coin, and the machine that confesses it feels nothing “The director managed the hardest thing of all: making the audience cry for something the film itself insists feels nothing.” Every work of fiction this…