“The mainstream can no longer claim to be the only quality stream. Self-publishing has simply become too attractive an option.”
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Parody ‘A Not Wholly Admirable Art?’ Not!
“Leaving aside its immediate aim of making the reader laugh, parody – literary parody especially – has an infinitely wider remit. … [It] is ultimately a form of literary criticism, where the judgments are arrived at by amplifying a writer’s stylistic idiosyncrasies to the point where they collapse in a wounded heap.”
Ai Wei Wei And The New Political Dissent
“Do the arts offer special access to political truth? History would say no.” But consider Ai Wei Wei. “His art has shown how a state without dissent is the greatest threat of all.”
When Pauline Kael Ruled The Movies
“Nobody will ever again reign supreme over the movies, because the movies don’t reign supreme over anyone.”