Thursday, November 3 2011
Barbarians Against Barbarians: Henry Kissinger’s ‘On China’
The diplomat believes he’s a skillful player, he believes he’s in control; but the game is much bigger than he is, and defines what he can and cannot do.
Tuesday, February 1 2011
‘Shock Corridor’: The Enemy Within
Sam Fuller’s lurid 1963 potboiler about an egomaniacal journalist going undercover in an asylum strips bare the schizophrenia of postwar America with vicious hyperbole.
Wednesday, November 3 2010
Pulp Non-Fiction: Where Tarantino Meets Aristotle
Truth is as strange as fiction. Compare God in America with Angels in America and you can hardly tell the difference -- which is what Pulp Fiction has been saying all along.
Tuesday, July 7 2009
K Blows Top by Peter Carlson
Carlson effectively conjures the post-Stalin era of the Cold War and the inherent media absurdities revolving around Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Premier; the man who once promised to bury us all.
