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Michael Haneke Is A Brutalizing Filmmaker Because We Need Him To Be

Dostoevsky famously railed against Turgenev not for attending an execution, but for being unable to watch the final, grisly moment when the condemned's head was chopped off. "No person has the right to turn away and ignore what happens on earth," ...

From JACOB RUBIN, The New Republic,  19 Mar 2008

Why This Book Of Blogs Is So Much More Voyeuristic Than Reading Them Online

Like the best neologisms, "blog," has always seemed onomatopoeic. Originally coined by Peter Merholz in 1999, it sits, quite accidentally, at the intersection of some rich connotative byways: "blah blah blah," "logorrhea," "blather." Acoustically, it ...

From JACOB RUBIN, The New Republic,  3 Mar 2008

Y’All Writing

Like the best neologisms, "blog," has always seemed onomatopoeic. Originally coined by Peter Merholz in 1999, it sits, quite accidentally, at the intersection of some rich connotative byways: "blah blah blah," "logorrhea," "blather." Acoustically, it ...

From JACOB RUBIN, The New Republic,  29 Feb 2008

Super Bowl halftime performer Tom Petty, and the power of clichéd, eternally adolescent rock 'n' roll.

I have always been a bit embarrassed by my weakness for Tom Petty. Though a prolific, popular songwriter--bankable enough to be this year's Super Bowl halftime performer, an honor recently wreathed upon fortified legends Paul McCartney, the Rolling ...

From JACOB RUBIN, The New Republic,  1 Feb 2008

‘I’m Not There’ ignores the cost of Bob Dylan’s many transformations

How can you pack a life as multifarious and contradictory as Dylan's into a biopic without blasting the whole glib genre to smithereens? In , the acerbic and visually fastidious Todd Haynes attempts a solution: dispatch six actors-among them, Heath ...

From JACOB RUBIN, The New Republic,  21 Nov 2007

On the overuse of exclamation points.

I'm meeting my friend Nick for dinner downtown. At 6:30, I feel that cell-phone-sized hum in my pocket, the sensation these days of incoming language. A text from Nick: "Running 10 mins late." After considering a number of replies (the tried-and-true ...

From JACOB RUBIN, Slate,  30 Aug 2007

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