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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. – Mark Antony, from his monologue in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” For months I kept a [...]
I recently finished watching the new(ish) adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story, “Young Sherlock.” Hero Fiennes Tiffin plays young Sherlock and Dónal Finn is [...]
Originally published in 1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin is an early exploration of abandoned conventions, feminist agency, and perceived selfishness. So scandalous was [...]
Is it any wonder that the DC Universe’s much-awaited “Supergirl” summer blockbuster has been pilloried far and wide as a box-office disaster and a [...]
Then&Now
Essays by Christopher Winner
Termination
This is a very short story about my two children. One is Jason, by now close to 45, and Nedra, who, last I was [...]
A dollar gets a dime
Toward the end of his life, long after battles won and lost, brute temper and trivial anger exhausted, my father spoke often of the [...]
Deep blue sea
Smaller than small, I once set out on a a great adventure at the Washington aquarium, another way of saying I became lost. I [...]
Conclave of three doors
The death of Pope Francis was coming for some time. Now, cardinals will face some hard choices, most of which reside behind three doors. [...]
In Case You Missed It
Happy half-century
I turned fifty last week, and the next morning, I got a text from CVS advertising the shingles vaccine. “Happy [...]
Photoessay: Earth Day
While waiting in the lavatory line, during a trans-Atlantic flight from Paris to New York in April, I was [...]
Ford’s brush with death in SF
While our city does not have the equivalent of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner, it did stage an [...]
Making dough with dough
Years ago when I picked up my grandmother’s blue mixing bowl and my mother’s favorite spoon, which had a hole [...]
Hong Kong attraction, part 6
We didn’t stay in one place for long. During that first stretch at the Mandarin, I tried to write while [...]
A tale of two campaigns
Democratic socialist Nithya Raman was supposed to be the “next” Zohran Mamdani, laying siege to the Democratic establishment of Los [...]
What college has to answer for
The younger residents in my apartment building seem stuck in college. They wear pajamas and slippers in public spaces. They [...]
Film: “Michael” (2026)
What’s not to like about this boisterous two-hour biopic about pop music legend Michael Jackson? It captures all the flamboyant [...]