Before Witnesses – Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Before Witnesses - Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). A hand finds the wall switch, and the living room arrives all at
Glazed with Rose – The Writings of Charles Baudelaire
Glazed with Rose - The Writings of Charles Baudelaire. It appeared in the late summer of 1862 in La Presse, in a series of
Known by Sight
Known by Sight - An Essay on Caravaggio. Three things in this sentence have to be pulled apart. The first is what Baglione saw:
The Heat of the Sentence
The Heat of the Sentence: Grammar, Judgment, and the Unnamed Dead in Albert Camus’s The Stranger
Six words, and none of them his. Mère décédée.
Show Me the Documents
Show Me the Documents: On José Saramago's O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. Before going further I should say plainly what this essay is, because
The Archive and the Wind: On One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Between the cow's placard and Melquíades's parchments, One Hundred Years of Solitude runs its argument. This is not a family chronicle decorated with charming
Authentic Paranoiac Phantoms: The Life, the Work, and the Manufacture of Salvador Dalí
The documentary spine of Dalí's childhood is unusually firm, because his father made documents for a living.Salvador Dalí i Cusí was the notary of
Their Hearse: Victor Hugo, 1802–1885
It is in one of these notebooks that the most famous sentence of his adolescence is supposed to appear: I want to be Chateaubriand
The Borrowed Sentence: A Life of Jorge Luis Borges
He was born on 24 August 1899 at Tucumán 840 in Buenos Aires, in his maternal grandmother's house, and christened Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis
Full and Partial Loss: Franz Kafka, 1883–1924
Among the professional writings Franz Kafka produced for the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia is a short technical argument about
Filed Under Trotskyist: George Orwell, the discipline of witness, and the politics of what can be checked
In the middle of July 1937, a police document travelled from Barcelona to the Tribunal for Espionage and High Treason in Valencia. It concerned
Tipasa and the Tramway: Albert Camus, 1913–1960
The argument of this book is that the familiar shorthand—Camus, philosopher of the absurd—describes a single early move in a much longer effort, and
Subject to Correction: The Life of Edgar A. Poe
This is where the documentary life of Edgar Poe effectively begins: not with a birth certificate, which does not exist, but with a solicitation
A Boiled Rag in a Glass House – Parasite or Gisaengchung, black comedy-thriller by Bong Joon Ho
The Window at the Height of Feet The first thing the film shows is laundry. A few pairs of socks hang from a collapsible
The Sound Arrives Late: Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the interval between the flash and the noise
Everything consequential in Oppenheimer happens at least twice: first as an event, then as an exhibit. A conversation in a Berkeley kitchen becomes a
A Room Nobody Is Allowed to Hear: On Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men (1957)
Six Dollars and Two Blocks About twenty-seven minutes into 12 Angry Men, a man who has been sitting quietly at the far end
In the Same Orbit as the Earth: “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (The Twilight Zone, January 15, 1960)
“I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (The Twilight Zone, January 15, 1960) puts the survivors of a crash down in a desert ninety-seven
The Distance to the Ground: Falling, Looking, and the Manufacture of the Beloved in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
Vertigo (Paramount, 1958). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor, from the novel D’entre les morts by Pierre Boileau
No One Said Earth: Third from the Sun, The Twilight Zone
The withheld world of “Third from the Sun” Four adults are playing cards. The table is glass, and for a moment the camera is
The Shape of Someone’s Waiting: Faces, Histories, and “The Four of Us Are Dying” (The Twilight Zone, 1960)
Three-Eighty a Night A man stands at the mirror of a rented room and works his jaw. He is not shaving and he is
