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Present Tense

Present Tense: Sylvia Plath Goes to the Movies

By Sheila O'Malley
June 27, 2019
Something fresh and strange: newly released letters reveal the prominent presence of movies in the poet’s life

Present Tense: Rolling Thunder Revue

By Sheila O'Malley
June 12, 2019
I contain multitudes: on Dylan, Whitman, and Scorsese’s new Rolling Thunder Revue documentary

Present Tense: Infinite Brando

By Sheila O'Malley
May 31, 2019
Tennis anyone? In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace gets at the heart of Brando’s art

Present Tense: Almost Like Falling in Love

By Sheila O'Malley
May 16, 2019
Love is a battlefield: Aliens’ Hicks and Ripley are an unlikely pair, but “unlikely pairs” are the bread and butter of romance, Hollywood-style

Present Tense: Frank O’Hara at the Movies

By Sheila O'Malley
May 2, 2019
“Darkness embossed by silvery images”: the New York-School poet had a rapturous relationship with the cinema