This week, the excellent CrimeReads published James’ piece on Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, and The Boys from Brazil, among others. In Levin, Reich finds a kind of kindred spirit, as different as their prose style are, in a shared concern for a Freudian gothic fiction. …
Laurence Rickels is our foremost analyst of popular culture’s repressed content, the sublimated presence of an uncanny canon of anti-classics that haunts our scene, in B-movies, in exploitation narratives, science fiction, camp, highly stylized and hysterical productions at the seam of juvenilia, trash, and high conceptual art. This methodology was …
FREUD: THE PENULTIMATE BIOGRAPHY by D. Harlan Wilson, Reviewed by James Reich April 10th, 2014 Ceci n’est pas une livre… This is not a book. It is an algorithm. D. Harlan Wilson’s trilogy of Hitler: The Terminal Biography; Freud: The Penultimate Biography; and Douglass: The Lost Autobiography are Magrittesque artifacts. Certainly not biographies in the conventional …
