Tag Archives: Winter 1997

Rootprints

Memory And Life Writing Hélène Cixous and Mireille Calle-Gruber translated by Eric Prenowitz Routledge ($17.95) by David Clippinger Rootprints is a wonderful introduction to the complexity of Hélène Cixous' ideas and the various types of her writing. The text offers an intermediary position between the forms of theory and the forms of fiction; it is […]

Chaos As Usual

Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder edited by Juliane Lorenz Applause ($25.95) by Jack Granath Chaos as Usual contains thirty-eight interviews with people close to the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Approaching such a book, I expected to come out on the far end juggling thirty-eight rival sketches, thirty-eight contradictions, thirty-eight possible Fassbinders. Instead, the book […]

Commodify Your Dissent

Salvos From The Baffler edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland W. W. Norton ($15) by Christopher Sorrentino Throughout its run, The Baffler has been a consistently engrossing and frequently persuasive journal of cultural criticism, loaded with a kind of edgy intelligence, far from the soi-disant “irreverence” of the day, that barely contains its anger. […]

KATHY ACKER (1944-1997)

by Joshua Beckman In Tijuana, Mexico, on Saturday November 29 at 1:30 in the afternoon, Kathy Acker, novelist, performance artist, and first wonder of the underground world, passed away at the age of 53. Suffering for eighteen months from breast cancer, and after two mastectomies, she eventually moved to an alternative cancer treatment center, where […]

Graphic Novels

The World of Graphic Novels by Eric Lorberer For those who still think of comic books as being dog-eared denizens of drugstores and newsstands, there's a world of graphic novels beyond the wire rack. The latest milestone in the effort to get this point across is Roger Sabin's Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels (Phaidon Press, […]