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November 15, 2017
Bertolt Brecht: Poet of Ill Tidings
In his poetry, Brecht captured a world torn apart by war and depression.
Noah Isenberg
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January 7, 2016
Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests
A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence.
Noah Isenberg
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FilmJune 3, 2014
The Best Years of Their Lives
Why World War II offered Hollywood directors an escape into reality.
Noah Isenberg
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HistorySeptember 15, 2010
A Matter of Memory: On Ingo Schulze
The unvarnished fiction of One More Story explores Germany's papered-over past.
Noah Isenberg
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BiographyOctober 15, 2008
Walter Benjamin Forever: A Critic’s Coveted Afterlife
Following the quirky, revolutionary life path of one of the most celebrated twentieth-century intellectuals.
Noah Isenberg
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisSeptember 29, 2005
Fighting the Abyss
Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now.
Noah Isenberg
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Covert OpsDecember 14, 2000