Joshua Furst
By Joshua Furst
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Culture Al Pacino’s Pain
Al Pacino is channeling my accountant: the same stooped humpback; the same flailing, floppy arms; all the physical discomfort that implies a deeper, metaphysical discomfort with being in the world. A flapping sense that his only defense against the indignity of existence is the sterile mathematics of money. It’s the kind of performance you expect…
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The Schmooze The Best Intentions: The Culture Project’s ‘Blueprint for Accountablity’
Monday night at New York University’s Skirball Center, The Culture Project presented its sold out “Blueprint for Accountability: Rule of Law: Torture, Democracy, Privatization, Habeas Corpus,” another of their decade-and-a-half long string of attempts to mix social activism with artistic production. As Brecht and Orwell and Abbie Hoffman showed, when art and politics are united…
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Culture A Climb, a Crime and a Debut Novel
The Jump Artist By Austin Ratner Bellevue Literary Press, 256 pages, $14.95. On September 10, 1928, a Latvian Jew was bludgeoned to death as he and his son hiked the Tyrolean Alps. The man’s son, Philipp Halsmann, 22 years old at the time, was convicted of the murder and spent the next two years in…
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Culture Muffled Singer
Singer By Ira Sher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 pages, $25.00. If the charge of fiction is to tell a story that reveals the mysteries of human behavior, Ira Sher is writing for all the right reasons. His second novel, “Singer,” is a book damp with the sadness and confusion of middle-aged men waking up to…
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