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CultureMarch 30, 2022
Why Keep Politics Out of the Oscars?
The Academy might like to imagine that their star event is just fun and games, but the fact is the Oscars are always political. So why not have included Volodymyr Zelensky?
J. Hoberman
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Arts and EntertainmentJanuary 25, 2022
The Surprising History of the Comic Book
Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire.
J. Hoberman
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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