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Autobiography and MemoirMay 12, 2021
Mike Gold, Avant-Garde Bard of Proletarian New York
A new biography charts Gold's many lives—as a novelist and journalist, as a working-class militant, and as a forerunner to the Beats.
J. Hoberman
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November 30, 2017
What Revolution?
Enzo Traverso’s new book offers us a guide to the left that the 20th century left behind.
J. Hoberman
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FilmFebruary 25, 2015
Brother From Another Planet
Jean-Luc Godard is still brooding on the end of cinema while imagining its future incarnation.
J. Hoberman
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October 30, 2013
The Cineaste’s Guide to Watching Movies While Stoned
The 1960s and ’70s were a golden age of film—especially if you didn’t mind the smell of pot smoke in the theater.
J. Hoberman
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FilmDecember 19, 2012
The Trembling Upper World: On Siegfried Kracauer
The European émigré who became a philosopher of American cinema.
J. Hoberman
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BiographyApril 25, 2012
A Charismatic Chameleon: On Luis Buñuel
Hitchcock delighted in manipulating the audience. Early on Luis Buñuel learned to be satisfied with amusing himself.
J. Hoberman
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Non-fictionSeptember 20, 2007
Class Acts
The left's literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.
J. Hoberman
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FictionMay 18, 2006
Supersize Misha
Absurdistan is a stunning encore for novelist Gary Shteyngart, both the avatar of a new Jewish-American literature and an inveterate Eastern European trickster.
J. Hoberman
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Books and IdeasAugust 11, 2005
The Twilight Zone
Though Bergelson wrote in Germany during the 1920s, his stories in Shadows of Berlin are more focused on the past apocalypse than the impending one.
J. Hoberman
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February 24, 2005
Jewtopia
Yiddish, a national language that never had a nation-state, may no longer have millions of speakers, but it remains contested territory nonetheless.
J. Hoberman