REVIEW
Film Critic: "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World"
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is destined for a cultural mitosis where filmgoers split into wildly opposing camps: those who dismiss the story’s centr...
08/12/10 - 27 comments
Cheever Mania: A Review of Recent Books On and By the Literary Icon
- Shortly after John Updike died the New York Times, posted a video of he and John Cheever on The Dick Cavett Show in 1981. I told my friend, a huge Upd...
04/01/09 - 3 comments
Dan Graham: Beyond
- Dan Graham: Beyond at MOCA Grand Avenue begins with a quote from the artist: “I love magazines, because they are like pop songs, easily disposable, ...
03/06/09 - 0 comments
Book Critic: Anders Nilsen’s "Monologues for the Density of Black Holes"
- With critically acclaimed books like Dogs and Water and The End, Anders Nilsen has placed himself alongside other young comic luminaries like Kevin H...
02/11/09 - 13 comments
"Le Doulos" and "Le Deuxième Souffle"
- Jean-Pierre Melville owes a lot to criminals. His films commonly involve the down-and-dirty inner workings of the criminal underworld, and to great su...
02/08/09 - 0 comments
"Kill Your Friends"
- John Niven's novel, Kill Your Friends, has been described as a sort of American Psycho for the record industry. Set in the coked-up world of 1990s Bri...
01/09/09 - 0 comments
Comic Critic: Yuichi Yokoyama's "Travel"
- Three men enter a station, hop on a train, experience a normal sort of ride, and jump off at their destination. Simple? Not so much.
It's been not...
11/21/08 - 0 comments
Art Spiegelman, "Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!"
- By now, even those who consider themselves ignorant of the world of comic art probably know quite a lot about one of the medium's greatest authors, Ar...
10/24/08 - 0 comments
"The Best American Comics 2008"
- Because of their titles, The Best American series of books face an impossible task. They promise the best of a specific type of writing whether it be...
10/24/08 - 1 comment
"Lush Life" by Richard Price
- Over the last three decades Richard Price has established himself as one of America's greatest living authors. Across books such as The Wanderers, hi...
09/30/08 - 6 comments
