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Ripped from the Headlines: Reality Cinema

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Morris Dickstein

First published in Dissent (Summer 2016) Hollywood has always had a strong appetite for fact yet a curiously lax attitude in channeling it. The typical biopic, ...

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On the West bank: A New Israeli novel

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Morris Dickstein

  First published in the Times Literary Supplement (Jan. 2, 2015) Among many obstacles to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the settlements estab...

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Marshall Berman, 1940-2013

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Morris Dickstein

(My longtime friend Marshall Berman died suddenly on September 11, 2013, just a year ago today. To mark his yahrzeit I’m posting some remarks I made at a ...

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My Cousin Harry

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Morris Dickstein

First published in Tablet (posted July 3, 2014) My cousin Harry Krug, who died early last year at 88, was related to me only by marriage but he couldn’t have ...

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The Best of the Best?

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Morris Dickstein

First posted on NBCC Reads (October 29, 2013) So many of the finest works of the last 38 years have been nominated for the NBCC book awards that it’s almost i...

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My Life in Fiction

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Morris Dickstein

First published in The Threepenny Review (Fall 2013) Novels demand a projection of self that varies with your moods and seasons, the stages of your life. Readin...

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Joseph Frank and the Unknown Dostoevsky

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Morris Dickstein

As a tribute to the late Joseph Frank (1918-2013), I reprint my review, slightly updated here, of the first volume of his great biography of Dostoevsky, which...

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Becoming Gore Vidal

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Morris Dickstein

First posted in The Daily Beast (August 4, 2012) Gore Vidal liked to style himself a populist but for his political leanings this hardly fit tha man at all. Pop...

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The Great Contrarian – Dwight Macdonald

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Morris Dickstein

First published in The East Hampton Star (July 19, 2012) Masscult and Midcult (New York Review Books, $16.95) gives us only one phase of Dwight Macdonald’s st...

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Looking Back at the French New Wave

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Morris Dickstein

First posted in The Cine-files  (May 28, 2012) At a time when movies seem more mass-produced than ever, we have every reason to wax nostalgic about the French ...

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