DAVID BATCHELOR — CHROMOPHOBIA — 2000 This book is surprising from the title onward, both forward and backward. No matter how you take it you are going to be both excited like hell and disappointed like standing in front of the gate of the Messianic Jerusalem. There is so little to see there. But I read…

LORRAINE HANSBERRY — THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW — 1964–1986 This play was produced for the first time by Robert Nemiroff in 1964. Lorraine Hansberry wanted to modify some passages and even add here and there some modifications. She died soon after this production. It is not even clear she saw the premiere. The text available today is the play…

HBO — BANSHEE — COMPLETE SERIES — 2016 A rather long series all based on the fake identity of the new sheriff of the city. He has just spent fifteen or so years in jail for a diamond robbery in Which he was more or less betrayed by the organizer. Yet he went away with the diamonds who…

LAURENT MATHOUX — CHINER LA FERRAILLE — REVOIR ÉDITIONS — 2023 Petit, j’entends court, et sans prolongations, roman d’aventures en jungle urbaine dans la cambrousse chinoisante, ou est-ce chinisante, de Saint Flour, en bordure de forêt, avec un cadavre dans la rivière qui coule encore malgré la chaleur et la sècheresse. Plus d’eau, pas d’eau, qu’importe pour qui croit au geyser…

LAURENT MARTIN SOUS LES PEINTURES DE LÉON BOUDAL — OLMET 12 AOÛT 2023 Nul n’est prophète en son pays, mais en musique Laurent Martin l’a été dans son Livradois Forez et cette musique qu’il a annoncée, défendue, enrichie des noms de nombreuses femmes compositrices oubliées, ou plutôt reléguée dans le silence des coursives du yacht social de la bourgeoisie industrielle ou du commerce…

ROLAND EMMERICH — MOONFALL — 2022 This film is not going to revolutionize human science and human philosophy, and certainly not any human religion. We are dealing here with the apocalyptic and catastrophic, oxymoronic and even paranormalistic, impossible and improbable saga of the end of the world, meaning, of course, the earth, and how a group…

TOO MUCH GOLD FOR ONLY ONE MAGELLAN — UNCHARTED — 2022 This is nothing but a videogame but with nothing to do, no console, no keys to be pressed by no fingers. You are just taken into it, and you have to submit to this absolute submission, slavery, guidance, in fact, consensual rape. And nothing to do. It goes on all…

CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT — 2014 — PRIME FROM SEASON 1 TO SEASON 7, BEYOND IT’S THE MARKET JUNGLE. It is entirely centered on Hank Voight, the boss of the Intelligence Section, a team that develops a family dependence among its members, you accept it or you move on. It started with the principle that everything is permitted to get to the truth or a confession, for several male…

JEAN-FRANÇOIS CELLIER — UN SACRÉ CŒUR, VIE ET MORT DU PÈRE GASCHON — ECKBOLSHEIM — 31 MAI 2023 DESCRIPTION DE L’ÉDITEUR, IN FRENCH Un cœur très rouge. Un cœur tellement vif qu’on s’attendrait à le voir battre. Un cœur miraculeusement imprimé sur le torse, teint dans les fibres même de la peau. Faisant peau. C’est celui d’un vieillard au cheveux argent. Le vieil homme repose là, sur la dalle froide d’une chapelle. En…