Gina Dalfonzo is a writer and editor who contributed arts and culture pieces to The Weekly Standard between 2001 and 2016. Her articles for the magazine focused on literature, film, and the performing arts, with a particular interest in classic literary figures and adaptations. She is also known for her work at BreakPoint and as the author of books exploring faith and culture.
"Forgive me when you see me draw back when I would gladly mingle with you," wrote Ludwig van Beethoven in the Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter he addressed to his brothers (and humankind in general) in 1802, but never sent. "My misfortune [deafness] is doubly painful because it must lead to my…
"Forgive me when you see me draw back when I would gladly mingle with you," wrote Ludwig van Beethoven in the Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter he addressed to his brothers (and humankind in general) in 1802, but never sent. "My misfortune [deafness] is doubly painful because it must lead to my…
There’s an anecdote here that perfectly captures the choreographer-director Bob Fosse (1927-1987). At the end of the musical Pippin (1972), the hero is supposed to say he feels “trapped but happy” with his new family. Over the protests of his team, Fosse cut the last two words, deliberately sending…
Never Let Me Go is a haunting exploration of what humans can do to one another, how they can attempt to redefine the very concept of humanity in order to exploit those they see as subhuman. It tackles these themes as skillfully and memorably as any film of recent years, perhaps even more than most.…
OF ALL THE DREARY DEMYSTIFICATIONS of female experience advanced by feminists, surely one of the silliest is the claim that the heroines of girls, classics helped turn generations of admiring readers into milksops. Yet that is the thesis of Deborah O,Keefe,s Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were…