“Taste is the Great Divider”
“Hell to Sit Next To”
“You're Not a Star Until They Can Spell Your Name in Karachi”
“Even as Everything Melts ”
“Marilynalia”
“Dog Poetry”
“Celebrity Politicians”
“A Wilderness of Contradictions”
“Cinematic: Roger Ebert's "Life Itself"”
“Tales of Buffalo Billy: Noel Simsolo's "Masters of Cinema: Billy Wilder"”
“Abnegation”
“Designed for Impact”
“Invisibility Act”
“Unfamous”
“Knowing It Has to End”
“Town Pump”
“Unprecedented Attentiveness”
“Afterimages of Trauma”
“The Passion of the Critic: On Hoberman, Kracauer, and the Future of Film”
“Strangers on a Train: Film Americana”
“The CIA Goes To Hollywood: How America’s Spy Agency Infiltrated the Big Screen (and Our Minds)”
“Getting Out of the Picture: On Being Nick Flynn”
“All That Is The Case: On Susan Howe’s Chris Marker”
“The Foam on a Sea of Rage: The Weather Underground, "The Company You Keep," and What to Read Instead ”
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
