Alex Harvey

Alex Harvey is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. His book Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles was recently published by Reaktion Books in the United Kingdom and University of Chicago Press in the United States. He is currently making a film about Satyajit Ray and Kolkata.

Is Rock the Real Thing?: On John Scanlan’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself”

Alex Harvey reviews John Scanlan’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself: A Screen History.”...

FILM

MUSIC

The Shadow of Annihilation: On W. G. Sebald

Alex Harvey explores the hidden treasures of memory in the work of W. G. Sebald....

AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

A Desperate Sadness and an Unapologetic Levity: On Jonathan Coe’s “Mr Wilder and Me”

The author’s latest novel is a love letter to one of his major aesthetic influences....

FICTION