Andrew Sarris—film critic, teacher, and auteurist foil to fellow critic Pauline Kael—died yesterday in Manhattan at the age of 83. Though it will be hard
Gabrielle Plucknette/New York Times The NYT’s 6th Floor blog ran a post yesterday by Amy Kellner about the installation of Yayoi Kusama’s career-spanning retrospective, which
Did you know that in a game of cultural touchstones, it’s only a gesture or two that takes us from this: To this: To this:
Jules Feiffer, cartoonist-raconteur born in an era when caricature could be scathing, indicative, deeply personal, and most definitely not post-irony, is the author of Backing
From Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro: The Declaration of Independence was
(First summer comes, and he’s the only one I ever feel like reading—) Statement “The greatest work of the twentieth century will be that of
(Image copyright: Dino Ignani) From Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, A Bilingual Edition Edited and Translated by Jennifer Scappettone _________________________________________________________________________________________ Da Palermo
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–82), hard-living, frenetic (libertine, bourgeois-scourging) New German filmmaker would have turned sixty-seven today, had he survived even into his forties. Strong-armed by
Robert Allen Zimmerman (b. May 24, 1941) GEMINI GEMINI GEMINI GEMINI GEMINI “Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble,/Ancient footprints are everywhere./You can
STUDS TERKEL (1912–2008) “I love thee, infamous city!” Baudelaire’s perverse ode to Paris is reflected in Nelson Algren’s bardic salute to Chicago. No matter how