Menu Skip to primary content Search Drew Lichtenberg Dramaturg and Theater Critic Bottomless Dream (or, Palindromes and Palimpsests) Written in the Winter of 2012 for Ethan McSweeny’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre. Indebted to Jan Kott and "The Bottom Translation," but there are worse fates than to be Kott’s amanuensis. -D...
By-the-books biopics are a dime a dozen and often result in a shallow portrait of their subject. But every once in a while you'll get a filmmaker whose film's unconventional form perfectly aligns with the singular talent at its heart. Such is the case with co-writer and director Ethan Hawke's "Wildcat," starring his daughter Maya Hawke as writer Flannery O'Connor, whose sardonic Southern Gothic humor elevated the ordinary lives of the characters in her stories to otherworldly and grotesque he...
Introduction This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz-kids, and lawyers, and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines. A science fiction writer coined the useful term "cyberspace" in 1982. ...
[link ] The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) and The Secret Life of Words (Isabel Coixet, 2005) are bookended by a peculiar voice-over, a childlike voice that surrounds the stories of the two protagonists, Ada and Hanna respectively. In The Piano, this narration is presented as the "voice of the mind" of Ada, who stopped speaking when she was six years old for reasons unknown even to herself. In The Secret Life of Words, the voice belongs to Hanna's dead daughter, an omniscient narration about...
