Tuesday, December 14 2010
‘They Live’: A Polemic Ripe with Ambiguities
John Carpenter’s They Live is “probably the stupidest film ever to take ideology as its explicit subject”, at least according to author Jonathan Lethem. He’s probably right, but that doesn’t meant that the film’s coded messages are as black and white as…well, the film’s diegetic coded messages
Thursday, March 18 2010
Re: Reading Chronic City
A second take on the most recent novel by Jonathan Lethem, which was named a New York Times Best Book for 2009.
Monday, November 9 2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Alas this is a meandering and fairly plotless book, one that is as bewildering as it is baffling.
Tuesday, February 10 2009
Omega: The Unkown
Full of explicit weirdness, Omega: The Unknown is the loving work of professional fan fiction.
Tuesday, November 13 2007
After the Silicon Rush
In the 20-plus years since cyberpunk threw down a gauntlet to science fiction and stormed the cultural gates, its vision has been praised, criticized, absorbed, and integrated into the mainstream. Does post-cyberpunk have something new to offer?
Monday, March 12 2007
You Dont Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
Lethem doesn't push the novel toward much of a plot with any sense of urgency, as though he'd left the manuscript baking in the Los Angeles sun.
Tuesday, June 6 2006
The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
As the Eggerses and Safran Foers of the literary hype machine take childlike pranksterdom and surreal folk tales to often dazzling, uncharted heights, Lethem writes from a less ambitious but no less affecting point, imbuing well-worn genres with an almost paralyzing intimacy.
Tuesday, October 12 2004
Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan Lethem
Sometimes, you realize that the artist who once changed your life is no longer speaking about you in the way you thought they once did.
Thursday, September 11 2003
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem has always been a cerebral writer with a junk-culture heart.
