With Both Hands
  • Home
  • About
  • Reading Log
  • The Long View
  • Criticism
Sign in Subscribe
Benjamin Espen

Benjamin Espen

Better than breaking all the pots

Better than breaking all the pots

Benjamin Espen Jul 3, 2023
Mythago Wood

Mythago Wood

It is a place where myths become true. No. It is a place where myths are more than true; a place where the myths have power and you have none. The effect is a diminution of the self in the face of something older, vaster, and stranger.
Benjamin Espen Jul 2, 2023
The Eagles Abide

The Eagles Abide

Benjamin Espen Jul 2, 2023
Oh Canada!

Oh Canada!

Sorry, not sorry
Benjamin Espen Jul 1, 2023
Bright movie mini-review

Bright movie mini-review

Will Smith's 2017 movie Bright was an early example of a big disparity between audience scores and professional reviewers, although in this case the audience only found it "okay", while often now the phenomenon produces outsized positive audience scores just to be contrary. I watched this
Benjamin Espen Jul 1, 2023
WBH Weekly Digest 2023-06-30: The Fantasy Canon

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-06-30: The Fantasy Canon

I'm back from a work trip, a family wedding, and a family vacation. On with the posting! A thread about the long history of Conan as a character, and the various reasons for his complicated publishing history. Spider-Man Has Lost His Place - Front Porch RepublicSpider-Man now devalues
Benjamin Espen Jun 30, 2023
Aww...I got dirt in my rims

Aww...I got dirt in my rims

Benjamin Espen Jun 8, 2023

Subscribe to With Both Hands

Vampires! Oswald Spengler! Spelling Reform! Watch out.
  • Sign up
Copyright © 2023 With Both Hands Publishing, LLC, Copyright © 2009 - 2023, Benjamin I. Espen. All rights reserved. Blog content from The Long View Copyright © 1996 - 2012 John J. Reilly.