‘The music of the era was dark. Even the poppy tunes and the […]
‘I’ve long had a game that I play at the end of long […]
‘Ours is a bleakly utilitarian era. Every act, it seems, must be overtly […]
‘Love flooded in her like a spill of paint, blooming across her consciousness […]
This is Louise Glück’s ‘The Undertaking’: […]
‘Miss Vera Brown, she wrote on the blackboard, letter by letter in flawlessly […]
‘When I make a work I often take it to the very edge […]
‘I leave behind heavy hearts. I wish I could dry the tears from […]
‘For me, filmmaking is not that complicated. If you make a film about […]
‘It is / Something he could do when he was very young, // […]
‘So what is Spear? Well, Hild, but with magic – Hild let off […]
‘There’s a certain tenuousness to Winogrand’s photos; the compositions hold together, but just […]
‘I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but […]
‘These are just questions. Please don’t care too much about them. As you […]
‘All good writing is honest in the sense that it says what the […]
‘The addition of music from Schooly D, one of the originators of Gangster […]
‘A gentle hiss filled his ears. […]
‘ “Katya!” A woman’s voice echoed from the house on the hill, muffled only […]
‘10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. […]
‘Usually the surveys came back safely, and no one was lost. Zivia told […]
‘All this pertains to the concept of the “brightweb” I threw out half-seriously […]
‘ “All of this. The houses, the decorations, this arrangement you have. The way […]
‘5.1 Revolutionary Woman #3 – Code Name: Dolores […]
‘When I say that to choose to kill the innocent as a means […]
‘Canon is a tricky word. I am using the term lightly; I mean […]
‘I once asked some students how fast they could read, and one of […]
‘If Chandler is considered the poet of crime fiction and Hammett its great […]
‘Seven years in the making, The Book of Love – long, but never […]
‘I love films that describe the world as a complex, mixed world, and […]
‘That peculiar mixture of excitement and fear, of melancholy and joy, of boredom […]
‘And the other trick that happens in that Pete Davidson monologue is that, […]
Part of Dana Levin’s ‘The Living Teaching’: ‘So all hail to me― / […]
‘Leslie was a huge influence on my writing. […] He was very good […]
‘Structural violence always seems to create extremely lopsided structures of imagination. […] The […]
Everything that can be said has been said in the film; I won’t […]
‘Nobody liked him in the valley. The elements who went to chapel thought […]
‘Lynch also frees the paranoia of noir from the straightjacket of narrative. One […]
‘The shaft was the negative equivalent of a skyscraper, an absence driven into […]
‘Scorsese always tells them they have to start a certain place, and they […]
‘Crossley, a big man of forty or fifty,had a queer, not unpleasant face. […]
‘I still hadn’t taken my eyes off the zelkovas. They were rooted at […]
‘A world without professors or specialists or house-keepers with the profiles of policemen, […]
‘She knew the sun in heaven, blue-molten with his white fire edges, throwing […]
She’d been right, after all. He had been named after a star. […]
‘If anything good can come of these two tragedies, I hope it’s that […]
This is James Fenton’s ‘Tiananmen’ […]
‘After a time, I no longer heard my words but only the sound […]
‘For a split-second his pupils flare, and his nostrils, and he raises his […]
‘Our memories from before do not add up. Some of us remember a […]
‘My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I […]
I love the precision of the pauses in ‘Morning Song’, particularly the semicolon […]
‘Severed of flesh and earth, the dog’s soul remembered. It remembered wolf and […]
‘But then I see how the limits of the city have changed. The […]
‘Ani’s ears lifted, this time in surprise. Deep work was dangerous. She remembered […]
‘Miami Vice is above all a great film on the human condition in […]
‘Calls for accountability and transparency might sound technocratic and unambitious. But the right […]
‘Cigarette smouldering in hand he shambled into the lane, a coronet of smoke […]
‘When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them – and that […]
‘I write crime novels, so yes, of course I think of myself as […]