My “Reviewing Credo” does not encompass the dear reader. Truth to be told, I couldn’t care less whether a reader of my reviews wants to read the book in question or not after having read my review. My reviewing Credo goes something like this. I want my reviews to recover what the renaissance essay form was originally meant to embody. It meant an assay – a trial or a test of something; putting something to the proof; and doing so in a form that is not closed-off and that cannot be reduced to a system. I want to communicate intellectual activity at its most alive: when it is still exciting to the one doing it (me); when it is questing and open. Literary criticism – i.e., really thinking about words in action, plays as action, films as action – can start making a much more creative and vigorous contribution to contemporary intellectual life. As I've said previously elsewhere, writing is an outlet for my creativity and an eternal personal project where I can deal with stuff that interests me (books, technology, Computer Science, Shakespeare, Theatre, Opera, you name it). It goes without saying, it's also my own personal megaphone with which to share my insanely fustian thoughts with the world. Writing stuff and publishing it also finds a way to connect me with other like-minded folks online. You know who you are.

Here you’ll find all my book, movie, Play, TV Series, etc. reviews, as well as some other stuff (mainly essays) published over 2016.