America's Most Critical Journal since 1999
by Dan Geddes Hollings’ Works Soldier’s Way (1920) Elmer and Louise (1922) A Green Sled and Other Poems (1923) Son of the South (1928) Share the Land (1931) Call of the Bottle (1937) Paris Nights (1943) (Screenplay) Shrapnel! (1945) One World—Part I ... More »
By Dan Geddes 21 January 2015 America’s fullness is a bad fullness; an emptiness. America is full of emptiness, because it is too full of fullness. It is even empty of emptiness—but in the bad way. –Yamamoto Shunryu Yamamoto (’JA-MAH-’MOH-TOH) wa... More »
The Career of Hans Donkerzijde, and His Amsterdam Portal Imaginary review by Dan Geddes One of the great what-ifs of Amsterdam “Golden Age” architecture was Hans Donkerzijde’s never-completed portal for the east side of the city. Donkerzijde (1613 –... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes Early Years Case Studies: Fox Boy and “Tail Envy” The Selfish Stage “Shrink To The Stars” The Inner Victim Hoyt’s Legacy Dr. Claire Hoyt, once the world-famous “Shrink to the Stars,” d... More »
Claude Roget: Philosopher or Fraud? Imaginary review by Dan Geddes Works Discussed Claude Roget: Montmartre Mountebank by Louis Bloch Order Is Terror by Claude Roget Literature and Vacuum by Claude Roget “Uncommunicative Modalities In Roget’s Anti-T... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI—An academic conference, “Incest, Murder and Mutes in Faulkner’s Early Fiction” was held here last week to discuss an astonishing development in the history of Faulkner scholarship—the possible disco... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes Works Picasso Blockhead Piece of Shit #2 Rhubarb Pie Gramophone Straight Red Line On Paper Nixon’s Mind “Genuine Forgeries” Final Days: Hair Piece Kinski’s Legacy WASHINGTON, DC—The most com... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes The great German composer and musicologist Felix Spielenhammer left an indelible mark on musical history. His development as a composer and theorist mirrors developments in twentieth century music as a whole. His death on ... More »
Alexandria Czechtealeaves: True Psychic Imaginary review by Dan Geddes The rise of psychics in recent years has brought a host of charlatans into the public eye. But against this background of fraudulence, one psychic’s image remains untarnished. Alexand... More »
by Dan Geddes 14 January 2000 Introduction Take The Breyers-Devere Probe of Human Worth! How the Questions Are Designed Moral Absolutist (A) vs. Moral Relativist (R) Egoists (E) vs. Team-Players (T) Intellectual (I) vs. Feeler (F) Optimist (O) vs. Pessimist (P... More »
by Dan Geddes Beginning with his first film, Mr. Kleen (1988), writer/director Jake Steiger went on to film some of the most popular films of the 1980s and 1990s. Steiger’s Filmography Mr. Kleen (1988) ** ½ All In The Family (1989) ***½ Bringing Up ... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes 19 October 1999 One overlooked, undoubtedly tragic, consequence of the Cold War was the isolation of Eastern European artists and philosophers. Suppressed, imprisoned or even executed, some of these creative geniuses were prevent... More »