Archive - BordoLines

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Jul 13 •

Please Let The Women Write Season 5 of “The Bear” [Warning: Contains Spoilers and Feminism]

I love “The Bear.” But like “Succession” it has an irritating flaw.

Jul 4 •

June 2025

The Existential and Economic Stupidity of the Dobbs Decision

Three years ago today SCOTUS obliterated Roe V. Wade. Their reasoning was cruel and oblivious to reality. Two excerpts from previously published pieces.

Jun 24 •

Best of BordoLines: Movies and TV, 2023-2025

From my first, barely read stack (on “1883”) to the one that took flight (on “A Complete Unknown”), I’ve loved writing about the intersections of…

Jun 18 •

Don’t get old. Your aging body will become fair use*

Jun 11 •

My Life as a Female Body: Three Short Excerpts

The fat female body as “too much”/How the body speaks/Walt Disney made me diet.

Jun 5 •

May 2025

I Forced Myself to Read Jake Tapper’s Book

Don’t believe the gushing reviews from members of the club. It isn’t “King Lear.” It isn’t even decent political history. It allows Trump to emerge…

May 30 •

Bookcase to Screen: For Pure Pleasure, Ten of My Favorite Adaptations

Multiverses, time-traveling, and fancy editing can’t replace a great story and compelling characters. (Note: This stack is loaded with great film clips…

May 25 •

At The Scaffold

On the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s death, an excerpt from my book The Creation of Anne Boleyn.

May 19 •

The Male Id as “Sexual Liberation”: Watching “Last Tango in Paris” in 1973 and 2025

I once loved Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris,” A memoir and new movie based on the life of Maria Schneider had me revisit the film, which I…

May 19 •

My Mother the Adventuress

For Regina Lilian Siegel Klein (1913-1976)

May 11 •

Fact, Fiction, and Anne Boleyn

I love historical novels and films. But I worry about how fragile our compass has become for sorting out fiction from fact.

May 10 •

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