Oct 1 2005

One might begin to place novelist J. M. Coetzee at a conjunction of influences: Dos­toyevsky, Defoe, and Beckett. His novel The Master of Petersburg (1995) is one of the ...

Nov 1 2003

For those arriving late: On some forgotten shelf of a Hollywood prop barn, there lurks a Little Clown. Waiting for someone—maybe you, maybe me—to witness the protracted ...

Oct 1 2003

A  peculiar thing happens midway through Jerry Lewis’s 1961 film The Errand Boy (directed by Jerry Lewis). The titular doof (Jerry as “Morty S. Tashman”) is wandering the ...