I Believe in A Christmas Carol (and the Redemptive Power of Memory)
These memories could make holidays without my daughter miserable. But the opposite is true. Remembrance makes Christmas all the more precious.
Midnight ’til One Belongs to the Dead: Hauntology in The Fog
Ghosts are signifiers of something that has gone wrong: a secret that has not been brought to light, an injustice that has not been righted.
Intolerable Silence or Uncanny Attention? Memoria and the Nature of Existence
The subterranean dread of Memoria comes from the possibility that our attention may alight on things unexpected, unwanted, and unwelcome.
The Aviator: How Memory, Love, and Art Transform the World
In The Aviator, Vodolazkin redirects our attention away from history as a sequence of ideological movements and towards the individual actions of human beings, each imbued with eternity.
My Last Name, Timeless Rhythms, and the Grace of Memory
What I discovered in My Last Name is a story that has continued to help me process not just the grief and disillusionment of these last several months, but diagnose some of our current cultural ills, as well.
Dementia and Redemptive Memory in The Father
The Father reminds us how important it is to make room for good remembering, even in the absence of a good memory.
