J. Hoberman ended his excellent and largely admiring review of Geoff Dyer's new book, a lengthy, discursive, highly personal exploration/exegesis of and or "riff" on Andrei Tarkovsky's 1978 film Stalker…
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1) The final third of The Last Genet, Hadrien Laroche (1997; Arsenal edition, 2010) Certainly a great idea for a book: an in-depth examination of the writing/political activism of notorious…
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One of the best film books of the year is also one of the most unusual. Conversations With Clint, edited by Kevin Avery, presents the "lost interviews" conducted by the…
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In all this excitement I nearly forgot that, for a feature for the Nomad "vertical" Wide Screen, I interviewed Brian Kellow, the author of the biography Pauline Kael: A Life…
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This week, in the latest edition of Nomad Editions' Wide Screen, I review Jason Zinoman's Shock Value. Here is an excerpt, which largely concerns portions of the book that met…
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For at least one person with whom I’ve discussed the book, the designated Chapter 9 of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, headed “Author’s Foreword,” is a real uh-oh moment…
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