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Friday essay: weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

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5 Iconic Gen X Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once

New stories appear in every succeeding generation, creating their own versions of what they believe to be real. The Gen X stories employed sarcastic speech to reveal their personalities, demonstrate their ability to solve complex problems, and reject simple answers. The essential Gen X books offer readers insight into their…

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Rumaan Alam: ‘Reading JD Salinger now is like running into that particular ex at a cafe’

The US author on his early love of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the genius of Judy Blume, and finding perfection in Agatha Christie and Gustave Flaubert

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Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

Ben Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adults

The Guardian - UK

‘Morocco made us innocent’: the many selves of Robert Dessaix

In an interview with The Paris Review, novelist Don DeLillo said, “I’m completely willing to let language press meaning upon me”. That’s not to say the sound of a sentence should be given priority over its meaning, but that meaning finds its full expression – is discovered – in the…

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Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld is moving, witty and achingly real

I was immediately struck by the title of Curtis Sittenfeld’s new collection of 12 short stories, Show Don’t Tell. That’s because it’s also the name of a narrative technique that allows readers to experience a story through the characters’ actions, words, thoughts and feelings, rather than the author’s explanations. It…

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Leave the World Behind author Rumaan Alam: ‘The authors I’ve read the most are like my own private university’

As the ‘Leave the World Behind’ author releases his second novel, ‘Entitlement’, he reveals the book that first obsessed him, which writers make up his ‘own private university’, and why he loves reading in the summer

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Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone

The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to author our own future, says writer Dan Brooks

The Guardian - UK

‘End of the world vibes’: why culture can’t stop thinking about apocalypse

Are we living through the end times? Dorian Lynskey contemplates the books and films that turn our fears into entertainment, and asks why each generation is so drawn to the idea that they will be the last

The Guardian - UK

‘It splintered our sense of reality’: how JFK’s assassination spawned 60 years of conspiracy theories

The murder of the US president left millions convinced their government lied and covered up. Decades on, it continues to twist the truth about everything from Covid to G5 to Trump’s defeat at the polls

The Guardian - UK

The music of Greta Gerwig’s films, from Lady Bird to Barbie

Here’s a look back at some of her most notable musical moments ahead of Barbie-fever well and truly landing

Evening Standard

In business: how brands like Nike, BlackBerry and Pop-Tarts became film’s hottest stars

A slew of new movies celebrate the boardroom mavericks of the 1980s and 90s – as well as the products they flogged. What’s behind this corporate nostalgia?

The Guardian - UK

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 18 February 2023

East Palestine, Ohio is choking, red-eyed, and scared for its long-term health. Thanks, Obama. And, Trump. And, Biden.

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You need to watch the most surreal sci-fi apocalypse on Netflix ASAP

If there’s one thing no one can accuse Noah Baumbach of being, it’s unambitious.

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White Noise review – director Noah Baumbach skilfully captures Don Delillo's 'unadaptable' novel

Never one to downplay the power of film, Stanley Kubrick once said that “almost every novel could be successfully adapted”. He carried this confidence into his own filmmaking, working not from original screenplays, but from adaptations of novels as different as William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical romp Barry Lyndon (1844) and…

Los Angeles Times

How 'White Noise' pulled off the strangest, most surprising dance number of 2022

With certain films, you're not at all surprised to see the characters break into a joyous dance at the end: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. Bollywood musicals. Animated films like "Shrek" or "Despicable Me." Even the odd raucous comedy like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."

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Movie review: Baumbach struggles to get his arms around DeLillo’s ‘White Noise,’ but he gives it the ol’ college try

Director Noah Baumbach always has made original films, earning respect for efforts he’s written or co-written that include “Kicking and Screaming” (1995), “The Squid and the Whale” (2005) and “Frances Ha” (2015).

The Independent UK

New this week: 'White Noise,' 21 Savage and Kennedy Honors

This week’s new entertainment releases include a streaming concert from 21 Savage, a Netflix film starring Adam Driver made from Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise” and a movie marathon on Turner Classic Movies featuring the martini-swilling detectives Nick and Nora Charles from “The Thin Man.”

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The Independent UK

Q&A: Baumbach finds a cinematic playground in 'White Noise'

Noah Baumbach doesn't often look for books to adapt

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White Noise: Netflix and Noah Baumbach reunite in overstuffed adaptation of impossible novel, starring Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver

Noah Baumbach's latest movie for the streamer, starring Driver and Greta Gerwig, smushes together sci-fi, noir and black humour, with a sprinkling of existential dread.

Evening Standard

White Noise movie review: Noah Baumbach’s Don DeLillo adaptation finds the fun in fatalism

The take-away is: “Oh, we’re so doomed. Let’s dance!”

Boston Herald

Movie review: ‘White Noise’ blends family drama, satire, disaster – and it works

Almost two decades in development, “White Noise,” a film adaptation on the acclaimed 1985 novel by American author Don DeLillo (“Libra”) arrives, and it is probably doomed at the box office, in spite of being one of the most relevant, personal and accomplished films of the year.

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #63: How vomiting became Hollywood’s favourite party trick

In this week’s newsletter: From Triangle of Sadness to Yellowjackets, everyone is being sick on screen – and it’s starting to make me queasy

Los Angeles Times

Movie review: 'White Noise' puts a loud, brash and enjoyable spin on a Don DeLillo classic

"White Noise," Noah Baumbach's jittery and inventive adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, begins with what you might call a love letter to cinema. We've had a lot of those recently, but this one — a college lecture on car crashes in American movies — is appreciably sharper, funnier and…

Los Angeles Times

How a director known for drama made 'White Noise,' the strangest disaster movie of the year

If you were looking for a director to stage a spectacular cataclysm onscreen, Noah Baumbach would probably not be on your short list.

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