Category: review

• Leave No Trace

  Nov 8

  In writing reportage about the Polish People’s Republic, Cezary Łazarewicz has written a universal book about the pathology of power. That this is a universal story, we can experience today… more ›

• The Mountain and the Wall (Book Review)

  Sep 15

  My literary education includes many of the great twentieth-century novelists of world literature, such as Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Allende, and Günter Grass. Fortuitously, I studied this literature with… more ›

• Frankie Says See This Film

  Jun 24

  Third film viewed at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Brendan Toller’s Danny Says–a documentary about journalist-cum-punk prophet Danny Fields, who is credited with introducing Jim Morrison… more ›

• Station to Station (or How Not to Make a Film)

  Jun 22

  Another film I saw at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Doug Aitken’s Station to Station. Billed as 61 one-minute films, this quasi-documentary of a 24-day, 4000-mile,… more ›

• Tangerine Dreaming

  Jun 12

  “I won’t be fooled by a cheap cinematic trick.” – Missing Persons The fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival opened last night with a showing of dir. Sean Baker’s Tangerine at the… more ›

• Unmentionables

  May 1

  “Beauty is just as vapid as its distinctions.” The recent translation of Anne Garréta’s Sphinx, translated by Emma Ramadan and published by Deep Vellum, has got me thinking about apophasis,… more ›

• Plant-Thinking

  Mar 5

  Recently I read Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. I liked it well enough. It offers an erudite reading and counter-reading to “the plant” within the metaphysical tradition… more ›

• El sexo de los ángeles

  Aug 12

  I’m always up for a good ménage à trois film, but, to be blunt, there hasn’t been one until now. Last night I watched Spanish director Xavier Villaverde’s El sexo de… more ›