My favorite film of the 1980s? It’s probably either this or Blade Runner, depending on which one I’ve seen last.…
From “The Search for Decolonial Love: An Interview With Junot Diaz” at Boston Review
Part I and Part II of the interview, found via subashini. Photo taken by me at the Berlin Wall.…
“I don’t know why we live…but I believe we can go on living for the reason that life is the most valuable thing we know anything about”
From Letters of Note: In July of 1883, the novelist Henry James received an emotional letter from Grace Norton — a good…
Review Issue 00!
Yet another issue of Review, Issue 00!, Spring, 2012: Paul Simon, it’s “Graceland.” Enjoy! Fiction Michael A. Martone | Wikipedia…
Creative Engagement with Joyelle McSweeney’s Percussion Grenade (Fence, 2012)
Precision, procession, possession—Percussion Grenade. Not only a boom but a particular-sounding boom. A percussion instrument is an instrument that must…
Feature Friday: “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” (1964)
It took me a while to catch up with this one, but when I did, I saw it projected at…
On Prometheus, Berlin’s O2 arena, Wings of Desire, androids, assemblages, agencements, corporate-imperial subjects and rebels, translator-traitors, and pain.
Recently, walking along the Berlin Wall near the Oberbaumbrücke: there, at the opening of the bridge, you saw…
“Literary Topographies” by Daniel Green
Recently Lev Grossman explained how he chooses books to review. “I review books,” he proclaimed, “if they do something I’ve…
Creative Engagement with Olivia Cronk’s Skinhorse (Action Books, 2012)
In Olivia Cronk’s new full length book Skinhorse, we are brought into a strange array of the animal, the grotesque.…
Feature Friday: “The Keep” (1983)
I was raised on early 80s cinema, and I’ll always love it. As well as defend it: for one thing,…