Wednesday, April 7 2010
Invisible by Hugues De Montalembert
This is a thought-provoking book, and I walked away from it thinking I knew a little bit more about myself and the world around me.
Monday, January 5 2009
PopMatters Best of Books 2008: Fiction
Feeling anxious? Here are 23 masterful works of fiction from 2008 that will either underscore your anxiety or help alleviate it through escape into the past and the land of make-believe.
Monday, November 3 2008
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The women have the strength to withstand the chaos; the men shirk at the responsibility, although they too eventually follow the women’s lead.
Friday, October 3 2008
Blindness
If its political metaphor is plain, the aesthetic allusions are more intriguing, as Blindness works to show what can't be shown, to find a visual language for what's not visual.
In the Land of the Blind
Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth.
Tuesday, September 9 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
