Thursday, August 18 2011
Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern Finally Buried in the Light
With the series coda to Geoff Johns' six-year run on Green Lantern just completed, the once bright Silver Age hero's adventures leave a bitter taste, more because of magical promise of Johns' early work.
Thursday, October 29 2009
Invisible by Paul Auster
Paul Auster is a spellbinding storyteller, sometimes thanks to, and other times in spite of, his post-modern narrative trickery.
Tuesday, December 9 2008
Independent Lens: Doc
Sinuous, dynamic, and utterly compelling, Doc remembers the man as his own lifelong project.
Friday, August 15 2008
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
This superb small novel isn’t about war or politics at all, but about, in the face of guilt and horror, choosing whether to die and how, if that is the choice, to live.
Thursday, March 27 2008
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
A dark, slippery love story, a meditation on the risks of embracing one’s muse, a study of the author and his/her “creation”, a quiet reflection on the nature of “human understanding”, this film is many things at once.
Monday, February 20 2006
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
Reading this novel is like watching Auster trying his best to remake his beloved city out of sand castles on Coney Island instead of the shattered fragments of the World Trade Center.
Tuesday, February 24 2004
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
It provokes such interrogation in a way that other novels don't, as if we can legitimately expect so much more from a writer who consistently delivers less, and who has made the theme of 'lessness' his own defining quality.
