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"Anxiety of Influencers"
Before she was Pauline Kael, New Yorker movie critic, Pauline Kael was one of many young American writers in the sway of the great critics of the 1930s. In his recently published biography, Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, Brian Kellow singles out R.P. Blackmur as a [...]
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The Rock Star as Hero
It is easy to forget that the Velvet Underground’s career was short: four albums over four years, from 1965-9, and their association with both Andy Warhol and Nico did not last past the first one. Throughout their existence, their chart positions were mediocre and album sales negligible. Their impact [...]
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A blog by Lisa Levy about dead critics, a few live critics, and the nature of critical inquiry
