Aatif Rashid·Mar 31Red Light and Karaoke: On the Surprising Beauty of Project Hail MarySandra Hüller in Project Hail Mary (MGM Studios), directed by Phil Lord and Chrisotpher Miller.
Aatif Rashid·Oct 29, 2025“The Last Light Bulb”: On Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow TicketThomas Pynchon’s descriptive writing is not celebrated nearly enough. While the public conversations thus far around his newest novel…
Aatif Rashid·Sep 16, 2025Analyzing the Narrative Structure of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Spring in Fialta”“Spring in Fialta and other stories” by Vladimir Nabokov, Russian edition. English translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov.
Aatif Rashid·Jul 10, 2025An Exercise in Editing: Revising a Passage from Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the JackalEarlier this year, after watching and enjoying the new remake of The Day of the Jackal starring Eddie Redmayne, I decided to finally read…A response icon1A response icon1
Aatif Rashid·Mar 30, 2025The Search for Love and Meaning: On Éric Rohmer’s Comedies and ProverbsLast year, I concluded a four-part analysis of Éric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons, a quartet of films Rohmer made in the 1990s and…
Aatif Rashid·Feb 23, 2025Close-Reading the Rhythms of Two Passages from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead RevisitedAs a writer, I’ve always believed that rhythm is one of the most important craft skills, and I’ve written about it several times over the…
Aatif Rashid·Dec 20, 2024What I Read in 2024: The Great Fortune by Olivia ManningIf I had to pick, the best book I read in 2024 was probably Olivia Manning’s The Great Fortune, published in 1960. The novel is the first…
Aatif Rashid·Dec 16, 2024Reading the Presidential Biographies: Washington and AdamsLast year, I decided to embark upon a slightly mad endeavor: to read a biography of every U.S. president in order, from Washington to…
Aatif Rashid·Nov 2, 2024Spirituality Amidst the Mundane: On Éric Rohmer’s A Tale of WinterCharlotte Véry as Félicie in Éric Rohmer’s A Tale of Winter (Source: https://kviff.tv/catalog/a-winter-s-tale)
