Nikolai Gogol

Film Review: Alex Cox’s “Dead Souls” Recasts Gogol as a Spaghetti Western Fever Dream

July 28, 2026
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The punk auteur’s late-career swan song is ragged, witty, and politically sharpened, though not always as cohesive as its ambitions.

Theater Review: “The Inspector” Makes a Wildly Amusing Call

March 19, 2025
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The Russian dramatist’s expansive application of ridicule, his picture of human society as an endless chain of fools fooling fools fooling fools, couldn’t be more fitting — it is a funhouse mirror of our times.

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