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Adam Nayman

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A Complete Unknown Misses the Elusive Genius of Bob Dylan

Greil Marcus opened his Rolling Stone review of Bob Dylan’s ironically titled 1970 covers album Self-Portrait with a not-so-rhetorical question:...

23.12.2024 10

New Republic

Adam Nayman

Pedro Almodóvar’s Self-Indulgent Portrait of a Woman’s Last Days

If Tilda Swinton hadn’t been born in time to play the androgynous protagonist of Sally Potter’s  Orlando  (1992), the director would have had to...

19.12.2024 10

New Republic

Adam Nayman

Guy Maddin’s Surreal Summit at the End of the World

Some footnotes to history are more mortifying than others. Recall if you will that, earlier this election year, the Academy Award–winning...

16.10.2024 2

New Republic

Adam Nayman

The Wayward Conservative Fantasies of Kevin Costner

The contradiction of Kevin Costner is that he’s a congenitally laid-back actor who’s at his most compelling when portraying characters in the...

16.07.2024 1

New Republic

Adam Nayman