Click Here to Read: Retired Japanese Fighter Pilot Sees an Old Danger on the Horizon by Martin Fackler in The New York Times on Arpil 3, 2015.
Kaname Harada, 98, holding a photo of himself as a Japanese fighter pilot in World War II. His final mission, he said, was to warn Japan to never go to war again. CreditKo Sasaki for The New York Times
Click Here to Read: Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey Lieberman review – genial and triumphalist: This history of (American) psychiatry by a high-ranking insider is ultimately too partial and limited in scope by Lisa Appignanesi on the Guardian website on April 5, 2015.
Dictatorial and brilliant: Sigmund Freud, played by Viggo Mortensen in the film A Dangerous Method. Photograph: Sony/Everett/Rex
Click Here to Read: Death of a Yiddish Giant Remembering I.L. Peretz, who died 100 years ago this week By Eddy Portnoy on the Tablet Website on April 2, 2015.
Detail of micrographic portrait of Peretz. The image is comprised of the entire text of the poem Monish. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
Click Here to Read: Hugo Bergmann on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Another Zionism: Hugo Bergmann’s Circumscription of Spiritual Territory by Scott Spector in Journal of Contemporary History, 1999, New Delhi, Vol 34(1), 87–108 on the University of Michigan website.
Click Here to Read: Hugo Bergmann on the Knowledge QB website.
Click Here to Read: On Shmuel Hugo Bergman’s Philosophy edited by Abraham Zvie Bar-On on the Google Book;s website. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Hugo Bergmann
by Herbert H. Stein
In the spirit of full disclosure, I must tell you that I may have a particularly subjective view of the film, Birdman, as I set about commenting on it to you. Obviously, all examinations of film have some subjectivity assumed, but in this case I seem to be outside the mainstream. I say it because I was totally baffled to learn that the film is widely considered to be a comedy. It is described as such in reviews and, as if to codify the point, it was nominated for a Golden Globe award for comedy.
I did not experience it as a comedy at all. I found myself in rapt attention in a continual state of tension, anxiety, anticipation, even worry over what would happen next. When it was over, I texted that I had just seen it and didn’t know if I loved it or hated it. Continue reading “Birdman”: The Unexpected Virtue of Psychosis
Click Here to Read: Life Lines: For an artist with amnesia, the world takes place through her pencil by Daniel Zalewski in The New Yorker in March 30, 2015.
A virus essentially obliterated Lonni Sue Johnson’s hippocampus, and she can no longer recall what happened five minutes earlier. Her life has become an endless series of jump cuts.CREDITPHOTOGRAPHS BY PHILLIP TOLEDANO
