The Hindsian Library
Ciarán Hinds is a reader. Over the years, I’ve kept track of his books via the interviews he has given. …
Category Archives: Beautiful Men
Shards of Honor (1986)
The first book by Lois McMaster Bujold is still my favorite from this expert storyteller. It’s as gripping now as …
First Man, Politics, and Art
Damian Chazelle’s new movie about Neil Armstrong, First Man, has drawn the ire of Armond White in the National Review. …
Dances With Bulls (“Woman Walks Ahead”)
In Woman Walks Ahead, Catherine Weldon, a thirtysomething painter from New York, travels to the Dakota territory to meet the …
Gentle On My Mind
Yesterday we lost Glen Campbell, the legendary singer, songwriter and musician. I knew it was coming, because when we saw …
Ciarán Hinds “Lookalikes”: Political Edition Plus
Ciarán Hinds is not often cast as a politician. According to the collective judgment of casting directors, he most resembles …
Famous Men’s Love Letters
There’s nothing like a good handwritten love letter to persuade me that we are losing something important with our endless tapping …
Beautiful Men in Screwball Comedies
Screwball comedy, a genre invented during the Depression, often features a madcap woman (think Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck) embroiling …
“Taken”: Masculinity, Memes, and Liam Neeson
Last night I watched Taken in order to find out what all the fuss was about, since this hit film has spawned …
The People Speak: Ciarán Hinds in “Jane Eyre”
As part of my Jane Eyre blog series, I’ve been reading through lots of reviews on Amazon to see how film versions …
