Len Gutkin

Masochism’s Gem-Like Flames
What did the Victorian era's aesthetic and psychosexual preoccupations produce? Len Gutkin on Claire Jarvis's "Exquisite Masochism."
Len GutkinMar 5, 2017
- Literary Criticism
The Elenic Question
The Elenic Question: critics of Claudio Gatti should stick to the ethical case and leave the literary-critical one alone.
Len GutkinOct 6, 2016
Matthew Barney’s “Excrementitious” Transcendentalism: On “River of Fundament”
Len GutkinApr 8, 2016
- Film
Babies Taste Best
On Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer'
Len GutkinAug 1, 2014
Camp Von Trier: On "Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1"
On Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1.
Len GutkinMar 21, 2014
A Beatnik Animal House: John Krokidas’s “Kill Your Darlings”
One hopes teenagers trained on “Howl” and on the sardonic Burroughs of Junky and Naked Lunch will recognize when they’re being condescended to.
Len GutkinOct 29, 2013
The Last Obscenity: William Gaddis’s Collected Correspondence
Len GutkinJun 3, 2013
The Stupidity of Mankind, Its Misuse of Reason: An Interview with William H. Gass
Len GutkinApr 1, 2013
- Fiction