Summer 2009
"Tomorrow I will wake up at my ranch, he thought, and it was as though he were two men at once: the man gliding along through the autumn day and the geography of his native land, and the other man, imprisoned in a sanatorium and subjected to methodological attentions."
- Jorge Luis Borges, "The South" (1944)
 |
Taming A Life on the Wild Side: An Interview with Sam and Rebecca Umland about the Work of Donald Cammell | |
| A Scottish visionary finally gets his due. |
||
 |
The Life and Death of Elephants | |
| Roshan Patel gives a wide-angle view of the circle of life. |
||
 |
Review of The Outlander | |
| Gil Adamson's mind-trip hits and misses. |
||
|
Review of Toward a New Film Aesthetic | |
| The new mode of film boldly goes where its postmodern forebears have gone before. |
||
 |
Review of Walter Benjamin's Archive | |
| The theorist-poet's personal collections laid bare. |
||
|
Review of Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King | |
| What do we still have to learn about American's premiere fear-maker? |
The Modest Proposal is an electronic journal specializing in book reviews, emerging thought, and polemical essays of general interest. Direct all inquiries to the editor.
