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Michael Atkinson is a critic for the Village Voice, Sight & Sound, and In These Times. His latest book is Hemingway Cutthroat (St. Martin’s Press).
A Man Who Got Everything He Wanted
Michael Atkinson
Essays
Hitler, Cineast
Michael Atkinson
Essays
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things
Michael Atkinson
Essays
The Gestures of Robert Mitchum
Michael Atkinson
Essays
Polish Movie Posters: One of the Great Secrets of Twentieth Century Pop Art
Michael Atkinson
Essays
Anna Karina and the American Night
Michael Atkinson
Essays
Face/Off
Michael Atkinson
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Other People’s Bookmarks: Fellow Wanderers of a Forgotten Republic
Michael Atkinson
Essays
Hyperauthor! Hyperauthor!
Michael Atkinson
Essays
To Saragossa and Part Way Back: A Polish Ghost Storry
Michael Atkinson
Essays
O Biblioklepts!
Michael Atkinson
Hitler, Cineast
Michael Atkinson
Feb 1 2013
Adolf Hitler liked to watch movies. During his ascension in the ’30s and then during the war, the first of many terrestrial conflicts to be fully reflected back onto itself ...Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things
Michael Atkinson
Mar 1 2012
Here’s me at nine, circa the first stirrings of Watergate and the first visible rat incisors growing from the jaws of the Nixon administration: four-eyed, skinny as a chicken ...The Gestures of Robert Mitchum
Michael Atkinson
Mar 1 2011
Angel Face (1952) Untying a tie, Bob’s huge hands handle the fabric like a child’s hair, slowly, lazily. Cigarette dangling. Thinking of a woman, or maybe about how he should ...Polish Movie Posters: One of the Great Secrets of Twentieth Century Pop Art
Michael Atkinson
Mar 1 2009
Dismiss me as a philistine, but it seems to me the aesthetic claim of the movie poster as art object is pretty easy to make, easy to love, and easy to summarize. Though they ...Anna Karina and the American Night
Michael Atkinson
Mar 1 2008
A man is driving in the sun, and a woman is sitting next to him, and we see them from the backseat, so the landscape—in this case, dusty southern French provincial—moves all ...Face/Off
Michael Atkinson
Jan 1 2006
Look again at the advertising image for the recent Andrew Niccol arms-peddling-satire Lord of War: Nicolas Cage gazes dyspeptically out at us, but a moment hangs between us ...Other People’s Bookmarks: Fellow Wanderers of a Forgotten Republic
Michael Atkinson
Nov 1 2005
You’re reading, reading a book, and when you’re not reading it, you mark your place. Maybe you simply use the book-jacket flap; if it’s a disposable book or you’re just a ...Hyperauthor! Hyperauthor!
Michael Atkinson
Jan 1 2004
As you may have heard—although you may very well not have, and although such stunningly uncultured innocence, however widespread, might come as a shock to the system of our ...To Saragossa and Part Way Back: A Polish Ghost Storry
Michael Atkinson
Jul 1 2003
There is a book I love by an eighteenth-century Pole called The Saragossa Manuscript. Or, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Or, not quite a book but an onion-layered opus ...O Biblioklepts!
Michael Atkinson
May 1 2003
I steal books. Or, rather, I used to steal books, when I was young. I’m forty now, and haven’t stolen a book in nineteen years. Do you believe that? I’m not to be ...
