Rushdie shares his thoughts in a Q&A session presented by Emory University.
Nerval’s book “embodies Bakhtin’s idea of the polyphonic or dialogic novel where narrative authority is undermined. In this playful, pre-postmodern work, the frame dominates the story.”
Brin Friesen writes about Cuba, and boxing in Cuba.
Has Facebook completely destroyed your capacity for intimacy?
Sam Anderson diagnoses the effect of the web on literature — and guess what, he doesn’t think the sky is falling.
A charming twist on the LA noir, written, directed, and produced by one Zachary Sluser, who appears to be getting off to a good start in the movies.
Ron Slate finds the Essays of Wallace Shawn trite in substance but winsome in style.
Brett Gaylor and I discuss filesharing and remix culture in the fourth installment of Conversations About The Internet.
Total Film has published an installment of their regular feature “Movie by Movie,” about each one of Terry Gilliam’s films: “The Trials, the Tribulations, The Triumphs.” From Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Jabberwocky on to Time Bandits – about which there is an amazing story:
Gilliam was having a big argument with the studio [...]
Thoreau’s Journal is forthcoming in a new edition from NYRB Classics, abridged by Damion Searls; the Quarterly Conversation’s Geoff Wisner has given a favorable and interesting review of the book:
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