Book reviews, miscellaneous articles, and essays:
Are Philosophy and Misanthropy Synonyms?
Refuting Paranormal Phenomena
Registers and Variety in Peninsular Spanish
Television’s Time Out of Mind
Parallel Texts: An Object Lesson
The Savvy Translator?
My Checklist for Proficiency Levels in a Foreign Language
Problems of the Critic
Language Lessons Learned in a Foreign Country
On Sushi, or How to Live Dangerously
Murderous Schopenhauer
Developing Verbal Style
The Lesson of Lucien
Ego and the Will to Power
Despair and Nothingness
Catch-22
Independence and the Intellect
Literature for the Self-Taught
Articles, essays, and other things in Spanish
Sobre la adquisición de segundas lenguas
El poder de la maternidad
Las redes sociales y la causa del narcisismo
Laberinto de pasiones (1982)
Bienvenidos a España (2021)
¿La bendición del pesimismo?
La sensación de hablar una segunda lengua
Élite en el mundo moderno
¿Apple o Microsoft?
La maldad: ¿es congénita o adquirida?
Un momento para el dolor de aprender
Sin techo ni ley (1985)
Aguirre, la cólera de Dios (1972)
Pensamientos sobre la jerga
Una experiencia de mis años en el instituto
Un logro personal
The following is a list of articles and essays about movies that I’ve loved or that have otherwise provoked in me some reaction, insight, or criticism, starting with the most recent:
Time Regained (1999)
Naked (1993)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Into the Abyss (2011)
The Trilogy of Life (1971-74)
Átame (1989)
The Before Trilogy (1995-2013)
Burden of Dreams (1982)
The Immigrant (1917)
Teorema (1968)
Frances Ha (2012)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
The Inland Sea (1991)
Mon oncle d’Amérique (1980)
Pixote (1980)
The Woodmans (2010)
La Haine (1995)
Exotica (1994)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Love in the Afternoon (1972)
Pauline at the Beach (1983)
The Day After Trinity (1981)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Hunger (2008)
Léolo (1992)
The Charmer (2017)
Election (1999)
While We’re Young (2014)
The Only Son (1936)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Uncut Gems (2019)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Un Coeur en Hiver (1992)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Orpheus (1950)
The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Summer with Monika (1953)
Kes (1969)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
The Dead (1987)
Waking Life (2001)
The Pledge (2001)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Ida (2013)
The Circus (1928)
Goodbye Solo (2008)
Harakiri (1962)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Caché (2005)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Late Spring (1949)
The Music Room (1958)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Eraserhead (1977)
Dogtooth (2009)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Night and Fog (1956)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Amélie (2001)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Lost in Translation (2003)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Spirited Away (2001)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Playtime (1967)
Le Samouraï (1967)
La Strada (1954)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Crumb (1994)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The Kid (1921)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Great Beauty (2013)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
Modern Times (1936)
L’Atalante (1934)