Wouldn’t it take an outsider to aptly critique the American scene, the American people, the American culture? Hugh Kenner, a…
Feature Friday: “Le monde vivant” (2003)
I was at Odd Obssession a few years back, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky told me he had a film he wanted…
Reader Rage, Henry James Hate
To start, we have two simmering, searing proclamations: In A Temple of Texts, William Gass quoted Arnold Bennett’s book, Literary…
Report from the middle of The Recognitions
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