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Book Review: “Pew” — Someone Truly Out of This World
In no way a ‘tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing’, Pew is instead a kind of reverie, a wide-eyed spin on the Southern novel.
Book Review: “The Atomic Bomb on My Back” — Witness to Apocalypse
Reading Sumiteru Taniguchi’s book brought back my memories of meeting a man who had witnessed the unimaginable.
Film Review: CREEM on Top — The Story of America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine
The documentary is about “the power of the community and how rock and roll, and music in general, is worth fighting for: sometimes that means doing it yourself.”
Arts Remembrance: Director Alan Parker — A Sensitive and Versatile Master of Film
It gradually became clear to me by the mid-’80s that Alan Parker films were, more than those of any other filmmaker, an integral part of my identity as a film lover.
Film Review: “She Dies Tomorrow” — Sudden Carpe Diem
She Dies Tomorrow marries the avant-garde with slice of life, jumping from death throes to conversations about dolphin sex over full glasses of red wine.
Opera Album Review: Is Perfection Still Possible? Lully’s “Isis” under Christophe Rousset
Is it any wonder? An opera that angered Louis XIV in 1677 brings enormous pleasure in 2020.
Film Review: An Exquisitely Haunting “Amulet”
This debut film from Romola Garai is to be commended on all levels: its technical proficiency, its aesthetic beauty, its affecting and unusual story, and its stand out performances.
Television Review: “Love on the Spectrum” — Celebrating Autism
Love on the Spectrum is a trailblazing docuseries that dismantles myths about autism and romance.
Book Review: “Great Demon Kings” — A Comet Circling Gas Giants
John Giorno was in the vanguard of what later became the herd: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Warhol, Buddhism, Burroughs, enlightenment, spiritual quests to India, unfettered sex, wild poetry, new technology, experimental forms of expression, queer politics, pot, speed, LSD — all the household bric-a-brac of the counterculture.