Len Gutkin is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He has written for TLS, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
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Masochism’s Gem-Like Flames
What did the Victorian era's aesthetic and psychosexual preoccupations produce? Len Gutkin on Claire Jarvis's "Exquisite Masochism."...
Matthew Barney’s “Excrementitious” Transcendentalism: On “River of Fundament”
THE OPENING SEQUENCE in River of Fundament, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s epic 2014 video opera (recently screened, for the ...
Babies Taste Best
On Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer'...
Camp Von Trier: On "Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1"
On Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1....
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....
The Last Obscenity: William Gaddis’s Collected Correspondence
IN A 1978 LETTER to the novelist Cynthia Buchanan, William Gaddis — The Recognitions and J R behind him — discusses ...
The Stupidity of Mankind, Its Misuse of Reason: An Interview with William H. Gass
THE LEGENDARY NOVELIST William H. Gass’s long-anticipated new work, Middle C, is a caustic delight. The author’s ...
The Terrifying Wish that Comes True: On Cain's 'The Cocktail Waitress'
ldquo;I OWE NO DEBT, beyond the pleasure his books have given me, to Mr. Ernest Hemingway,” James Cain wrote ...
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