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A Hermit Has No Plural by Gabor G. Gyukics – Review

Ron Kolm

A Hermit Has No Plural by Gabor G. Gyukics, Singing Bone Press. A Hermit Has No Plural, a collection of poems by the great Hungarian writer, Gabor G. Gyukics, is wonderfully unique. It is a surrealist vision of a world...

Sticky Fingers the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine – review

Vincent Zangrillo

Sticky Fingers the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Joe Hagen. Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95 hardcover (545 pages) The title tells the tale: first the rock cultural reference, then the editor, then ...

Enthrall & Squalor: Photographing Downtown 1977-1987

John Weed

“Walking home at night was taking your life in your own hands.” Or so said one of the subjects of the documentary Blank City, about life in the East Village in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. (By 1990, your...

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KISS KISS: Very Short Stories – review

Thaddeus Rutkowski

KISS KISS: Very Short Stories by Paul Beckman Truth Serum Press, Adelaide, Australia Review by Thaddeus Rutkowski Paul Beckman’s new collection of flash fiction, Kiss Kiss, is characterized by multiple uses of ...

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, stories by Denis Johnson, reviewed

Vincent Zangrillo

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden [stories] Denis Johnson. Random House. $27 Denis Johnson’s latest, and unfortunately last, volume of short stories, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, published a quarter century after hi...

Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats – Review

Marc Olmsted

Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats by Robert Inchausti $16.95, Shambhala Books The title of this collection comes from a rather obscure Bruce Springsteen song that David Bowie covered and ...

Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective

Franklin Mount

The first Bergman film I ever saw was Cries and Whispers. My father took me. At age 14. It was on a double bill with Amarcord. If that sounds like a strange juxtaposition of films for a double bill, well, it is. Cries an...

Best Chinese and Korean Films of 2017

Jim Feast

Best Chinese and Korean Films of 2017 1) The Battle of Memories (Leste Chen, China) Phillip K. Dickish plot where a futuristic technology goes awry. A process of selectively erasing painful memories gets mixed-up, and th...

Sensitive Skin Best Of 2017

The Editors

Welcome! Time to ring in the old and ring out the new. Or whatever. Here's the best of 2017 picks, from our editors and contributors. Remember, it didn't necessarily come out in 2017—it's just something we enjoyed in 201...

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Pierced by Night-Colored Threads, by Dean Kostos, reviewed

Ron Kolm

Pierced by Night-Colored Threads by Dean Kostos, published by MadHat Press, (Asheville, North Carolina, 2017). Reviewed by Ron Kolm I’ve read a fair amount of poetry; I was the editor of The Evergreen Review for thr...

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Thaddeus Rutkowski, Guess and Check — Review

Jim Feast

Thaddeus Rutkowski, Guess and Check (Arlington,VA: Gival Press, 2017) Although I daresay he didn’t originate this style, there is a form of writing where reality and dream are mixed in a special way, which has become as...

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Franklin Mount

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern At the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, through July 23, 2017 Art and celebrity meet, again, in this exhibition, under the guise of modernity. Actually, there is nothing more modern ...

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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – Some Thoughts, No Spoilers

Marc Olmsted

Now that it's likely most of the most-interested have ingested the first 4 episodes of David Lynch's reboot of Twin Peaks on Showtime, I wanted to share some observations. As an elder, nearly 64, I watched the original se...

Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones

John Weed

“Ladies and Gentlemen, the greatest rock ’n' roll band in the world, the Rolling Stones!” So start about half a dozen Stones bootlegs I own. I always cringe ever so slightly every time I hear it. Although I believe it�...

Max Beckmann in New York

Franklin Mount

Max Beckmann in New York At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through February 20, 2017 These days, you can’t get away from references to Weimar era figures, in art, politics, or anywhere else. In that Weim...

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