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
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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
