Monthly Archives: March 2012

Black Cat Beneath White Cross, near the corner of Fairfield and Puritan, in northwest Detroit.

A copy of the Spring 1968 issue of Partisan Review, lying on a table in the Detroit sun in March 2012. Essays by Susan Sontag, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Norman Mailer, Abbie Hoffman, and others. In the section devoted to Black Power, … Continue reading →

My piece on D. W. Griffith’s (accidentally?) subversive short film from 1911, “His Trust,” appears in The Believer‘s 2012 Film Issue. I’ve used that film in several film classes, and each time there’s a greater sense of wonder at the film’s … Continue reading →