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Little Yellow-green Bird

By Lee Chang-dong

Appearing for the first time in English, a new short story from Lee Chang-dong.

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Jobe’z World

By Michael M. Bilandic

On the lifespan of an independent film.

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Who Are You Dorothy Dean?

By Emily Wells, Rene Ricard, Edie Sedgwick, Taylor Mead

An excerpt from the new bilingual edition of Who Are You Dorothy Dean?, the first book devoted to the late Black writer and actress.

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Gray Matter

By Serge Daney

On Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and the logic of the disaster movie.

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Trends, 2021

By Natasha Stagg

An excerpt from Artless: Stories 2019-2023, published this month by Semiotext(e). Natasha Stagg joins Metrograph on Saturday, October 28 to introduce her two personal picks for Natasha Stagg: Selects.

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Dividing Lines

By Ted Fendt

On the reception of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s early films in the English-speaking world.

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Matthew Barney’s OTTO Trilogy

By Maggie Nelson

An excerpt from Maggie Nelson’s essay “On Porousness, Perversity, and Pharmacopornographia: Matthew Barney’s OTTO Trilogy.”

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Back to Black

By Michael Koresky

On Karen Black’s landmark performance in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.

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The Shining

By Bret Easton Ellis

An excerpt from Bret Easton Ellis’s forthcoming novel The Shards.

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Things I Learned from Hou

By Kore-eda Hirokazu

An appreciation of Hou Hsiao-hsien.

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Catherine Breillat on Pier Paolo Pasolini

By Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat recalls her evolving relationship to Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Making a Monster

By Daniel Bird, Serge Toubiana, and Pascal Bonitzer

An excerpt from a 1981 interview with Andrzej Żuławski published in Cahiers du Cinema.