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David Hering

8 months

I wrote about the obscene in The Zone of Interest, a film that’s both rigorously structured and permanently on the verge of collapse, for @LAReviewofBooks

Viewing the Ob-scene: On Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” | Los Angeles Review of Books

David Hering reviews Jonathan Glazer’s film “The Zone of Interest.”

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Today I learned that Jean-Paul Sartre had a cat called Nothing

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I have just discovered that the mascot of the German basketball team Chemnitz 99ers is…Karl Marx

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Let’s refocus by going back to the accepted classics of poetry

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i fear only one person has truly ever understood me and i fucking hate the guy

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For sale: Baby shoes, never worn

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Today I learned that Albert Camus had a cat called Cigarette. This might be the Frenchest thing ever to have happened

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Today I learned that Sesame Street did an adaptation of Waiting For Godot called Waiting for Elmo

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I read this in Werner Herzog’s voice

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If you run an article on how children can be ‘legally killed’ I am never submitting to, linking to or reading your publication again

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2 years

For all my non-UK friends - you’re probably seeing a lot of jokey and ironic tweets about the government tonight. To clarify; this is what British people do when they’re incandescent with rage

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What is the name for the micro-generation whose parents permanently had the cassette of Paul Simon’s Graceland playing in the car

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So apparently there’s a dentist who works in the spire of the Chrysler Building

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This promotional photo of a Chewbacca mask looks like the cover for an album that would have got 8.0 in Pitchfork in 2009

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3 years

I found it, guys - the best book cover

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5 yr-old came back from school with this sticker, which sounds like the title of a contemporary novel

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Now there’s a dedication for you

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Francis Ford Coppola’s IG has just posted this picture of him directing Godfather II in this frankly amazing get-up

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The drug in question

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Just saw a drug commercial where the side effects included “feeling disconnected from yourself, your thoughts, feelings, space and time.”

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2 years

Just saw a cloud that looked like a document advocating for a republic

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3 years

On Akira Kurosawa’s birthday, this genuinely lovely anecdote about when he saw Solaris with Tarkovsky

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At just 14 words, one of Hemingway’s most devastating short stories

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2 years

You’ve got to admit he committed to the bit

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5 months

New royal portrait looks good

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1 year

Using Stalker - a film that had to be shot twice consecutively and which was filmed in a location so chemically toxic that it eventually killed the director, lead actor and several crew members - as an example of a movie that is easy to make is perhaps not the best choice here

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4 months

Why does this look like a flyer for a stand-up comedy show

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2 months

Remembering the time I visited Montparnasse Cemetery and saw Beckett’s grave. Someone had laid a single white rose on it in the rain. A powerful image. I then turned to see Serge Gainsbourg’s grave, which had the following two items on it

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3 years

When an academic says ‘I have read it but many years ago’ they have never read or heard of the book in question

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2 years

25 years of this today. An album that has been memed and parodied almost to death, but I'll never forget when I first heard it

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4 years

‘I hope this email finds you well’

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Béla Tarr made a version of Macbeth in 1982 for Hungarian television. The film consists of two shots; the first is five minutes, and the second is fifty-seven minutes

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Good morning to Samuel Beckett’s autumn wardrobe

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Are you ok? You’ve hardly touched your fully recyclable W.B. Yeats water

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Increasingly convinced there was a prelapsarian Tower of Babel moment where everyone used the same plug, but people angered the god of electricity and now we have this

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3 years

A rare photo of the time when Samuel Beckett was the frontman for Oasis

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My tips for extremely weird medieval cinema: Blanche (1972) Lancelot Du Lac (1974) Andrei Rublev (1966) Marketa Lazarová (1967) Black Angel (1980) The Virgin Spring (1960) The Navigator (1988) Jabberwocky (1977) The Canterbury Tales (1972)

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The Green Knight has a fair number of shortcomings as a film but it’s really rare that a movie manages to approach the sheer alien strangeness of much medieval literature

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2 years

One of my all-time favourite book covers: the Penguin edition of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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Oh no. RIP Angelo Badalamenti. This one hurts

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Literally spent the first 20 years of my life thinking Moby Dick was a boring ass Fenimore Cooper-type adventure story before discovering it was one of the most utterly insane books ever written

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moby-dick is so much weirder than anyone could have prepared me for. why does a random chapter begin with a stage direction

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2 years

It will never not be funny to me that there were two enemy philosophers who lived at almost the exact same time called Hegel and Schlegel

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3 years

One of the last photos of Andrei Tarkovsky, who died on this day in 1986. Incredible to consider that he’d still only be in his 80s if he’d lived

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Had the rare chance to see John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) on the big screen. There is nothing like this film - an Arthurian fever dream with images that defy description. The use of Carmina Burana when Arthur rides again and the land comes back to life - that’s cinema baby!

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Unbelievable picture of Cormac McCarthy (via @heystpress )

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Gordon Cole’s office in Twin Peaks has the greatest decor of all time - massive picture of a nuclear explosion, massive picture of Franz Kafka. Nothing else.

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Cover of the first Japanese translation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1931, trans. Oda Masanobu). Love this design

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It’s Tilda Swinton’s birthday so here she is dressed as a Leonora Carrington painting

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@mervatim On the bright side he’s resourceful

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Julio Cortázar and his cat Theodor W. Adorno (yes, you read that correctly)

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Tonight we are all Oliver Reed

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Not how I pictured him

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3 years

Considering teaching a whole seminar solely on this tweet

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I have seen Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1975) at least three times and each time I barely seem to recognise it. More than any other film I’ve seen it captures the form of a dream. Once I’ve seen it, it seems to evaporate into a sensation. I love it

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If you grew up in the 1980s, it’s virtually guaranteed that half of your family photos will look like outtakes from a folk horror movie

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Moby Dick is such a great book because it asks the big and important questions like ‘what if there were a bunch of extremely weird guys on a boat?’

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Just found this in my son’s bedroom. Don’t worry, the cops are on their way

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2 years

The only rewriting they should do of classic novels is to crowbar in a character saying the title. ‘It really was a farewell to arms’. ‘He really was the great Gatsby’. ‘I really am some sort of American Psycho’

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Derrida and Spivak look like they’re about to drop an incredible mixtape

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Since we have the great news of a new Claire Denis film, it’s worth remembering this legendary response to an audience Q&A

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This Christmas why not read James Joyce’s festive ‘The Dead’, one of the greatest short stories ever written and which contains the very Christmassy message that we’re all going to die

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7 months

Just watched an episode of Pokémon that has the same ending as Eric Rohmer’s The Green Ray

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6 months

Somewhere a lecturer wearing a leather jacket is saying “do you know who else was a tortured poet?” and cueing up 40 slides of John Keats painstakingly photoshopped into album covers

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Saw Unrest (2023). You know when you want to watch a film about Swiss anarchist watchmakers in the 19th century? It exists! And it’s great! It’s basically an adaptation of this graffiti

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Live reaction from Annie Ernaux

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One reason I've enjoyed reading fiction by women throughout my life is because they aren't obsessed with sex like so many male writers are.

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This was the working title for Lana Del Rey’s new album

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Rohmer’s lighting is absolutely exquisite. It’s a sort of ‘natural’ lighting, but it’s got this extra luminosity - the attention to where beams of sunlight fall, the whiteness of white walls, the warmth of evening. It’s essential to the tone of his work and how it makes you feel

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Éric Rohmer - Interiors

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During the one and only meeting of Marcel Proust and James Joyce, both men spent the entire time complaining about their ailments

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Name your favorite celebrity fact.

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British train stations: We have 1,000 copies of GQ and Men’s Health German train stations:

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1 year

When Emily Dickinson wrote “How public, like a frog”, this is what she was talking about

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I finished Proust. Not really sure how to express my feelings, other than to say that it was one of the greatest art experiences of my life, and that I’ll never forget it

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In 1938 Samuel Beckett was stabbed on the street by a pimp and would have died if not for his thick overcoat. Later he found himself sat next to his assailant at court and asked why he did it. The pimp shrugged, which Beckett found hilarious. This is the Beckettest anecdote ever

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I first discovered this book because it was on the library shelf next to another book I needed. I was intrigued, sat down and started reading and when I looked up hours had passed and it was dark outside. It haunts me to this day. If you’ve never read it, now is the time!

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Experience: I’ve tried 50,000 beers

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Always funny to me that we had a legit genius writer who also spent half his life walking round with a giant Wile. E. Coyote net

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Véra and Vladimir Nabokov prowling through the woods, on the alert for the elusive butterfly.

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On his birthday, here’s the young Roland Barthes rocking a tartan-trim robe like a matinee idol

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Imagining a Walter Benjamin essay for each of these little guys

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The Angel of History had friends. Paul Klee made these hand puppets for his son, Felix, between 1916 and 1924, WWI and it’s aftermath.

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I put 'Dallas' by Silver Jews over the opening credits to Dallas and it fits surprisingly well

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@octopus_grigori TFW a spectre is haunting Europe

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Thomas Mann skiing with Hermann Hesse. Insane huge scarf/shorts combo

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It’s 101 years since Proust died, so here’s a piece of the cork that he used to line his bedroom so he could write in silence (sounds extremely appealing)

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Apparently Foucault’s cat was called Insanity and Derrida’s was named Logos, both of which are so on the nose that I can barely believe they are real

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1 year

It’s worth remembering that many of the most enduring and acclaimed novels in history - Tristram Shandy, Middlemarch, Jane Eyre, Moby-Dick, Ulysses - are animated by the timeless question “What if there was a really weird guy?”

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Clarice Lispector sunbathing, 1955

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Possibly my favourite movie poster ever, for the Polish release of Fatal Attraction

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Someone has bought the middle front seat to the all-night screening of Satantango at BFI IMAX

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Our whole world is now an extended Don DeLillo prologue

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Japan received their first F35 and a Shinto Priest blessed it

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Good morning. Here’s Proust on the moment that winter turns into spring

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Natalia Ginzburg on England. What an extraordinary paragraph

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My main advice for parents is that there used to be five dinosaurs and now there are like 10,000

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Did you know that Hirokazu Kore-eda made a Netflix mini-series called The Makanai this year? And that it’s set in a maiko house and each episode is based around a particular dish? Possibly not, because it was barely advertised anywhere. But it’s fantastic and you should watch it