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Jana Prikryl

Jana Prikryl

Executive Editor at The New York Review of Books

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How to Beat a Dead Octopus

[illustration] In his poem “Some General Instructions,” which The New York Review published in 1975, Kenneth Koch offered advice on how to live. “Be careful not to set fire/To a friend’s house.” “When taking pills, be sure/You know what they are.” “To ‘cure’ a dead octopus/You hold it by one leg and bang it against a rock.” But quoting bits of the poem seems a falsification, because its true effects are cumulative—it is 233 lines long, a punch-drunk sort of length, as if its principal message w…
over 14 years ago
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The Genius of Buster | Jana Prikryl

[caption id=“attachment_37540” align=“alignright” width=“630”] Buster Keaton as Rollo Treadway in The Navigator, 1924[/caption] More than fifty years have passed since critics rediscovered Buster Keaton and pronounced him the most “modern” silent film clown, a title he hasn’t shaken since. In his own day he was certainly famous but never commanded the wealth or popularity of Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd, and he suffered most when talkies arrived. It may be that later stars like Cary Grant an…
over 14 years ago
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Waking Up at the Movies | Jana Prikryl - The New York Review of Books

[caption id=“attachment_39081” align=“aligncenter” width=“950”] Pauline Kael with Janet Flanner at the National Book Awards, where she was honored for her film criticism, New York City, April 1974[/caption] One of Frank Capra’s first talkies, the otherwise lifeless Ladies of Leisure, made a star of the young Barbara Stanwyck. She plays a working-class girl who sits, and eventually falls, for a rich young artist. In one scene just before the two discover they’re in love, the flinty model fails…
about 13 years ago
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Thomas Struth: Style Without Style | Jana Prikryl

In an afterword to his recent book Walking, Thomas Struth writes that he took the photographs “by rubbing my shoulders and my senses against ordinary, everyday architecture again.” This seems to acknowledge the project’s departure from the monumental rhetoric of his current show at the Metropolitan Museum, where twenty-five photographs are assembled in a kind of “greatest hits” homage.
almost 11 years ago
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Through the Regime’s Looking Glass | Jana Prikryl

One of the pleasures of watching Jaromil Jireš’s gleefully gothic and priapic 1970 film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders now is seeing it through a bifocal lens: as the lyrical product of filmmakers who dodged certain limits on their freedom of expression, and as a semi-obscure cult film appreciated more wryly in the West.
about 10 years ago
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The Painter of Continuous Motion

Elliott Green’s paintings, on view February 18–March 26, 2017 at Pierogi Gallery in New York City, appear to be in continuous motion. They can’t help invoking intellectual movement as well: they set the viewer’s mind tumbling toward successive interpretations. The idioms of landscape painting have been set loose on Green’s canvases, and we’re invited to see top-shelf vistas everywhere—with all that we expect of them: peaks, shores, skies, and the great luxury of distance itself, which signifies…
almost 9 years ago
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Making It Real | Jana Prikryl

Rereading the poems we published in the Review this year—forty-four in all—I’m struck by how many of them make emotional states literal, monumental,
about 3 years ago