Faust on Acid
The Faust legend reconfigured as avant-garde science fiction? It’s an approach that, in European hands, works far better than you might expect
MR. TURTLE
A weird one: a cyborg turtle, constructed as an instrument of war, headlines a Japanese import that functions as a bizarre speculative narrative, a philosophical fable and a surreal mind-tugger
On DOGRA MAGRA
“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”
IMAGES
A gaudily designed coffee table art book by the incomparable David Lynch
THE HOUSE THAT GROANED
A graphic novel that’s plenty weird, with a narrative that leans rather heavily into the perverse and psychosexual
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE NIGHT
This 1945 novel is considered the masterpiece of the “French Kafka” Marcel Bealu (1908-1993)
LOCUS SOLUS
The materpiece of France’s Raymond Roussel, and one of the most astonishing displays of unfettered imagination I’ve ever experienced
IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA
Raymond Roussel may well be the strangest writer of all time and this 1910 novel offers ample proof of that claim
Werner Herzog, Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Nobuhiko Obayashi and MOMENTOUS EVENTS
It certainly seemed like a good idea: a Russian American co-production in which six world class directors partook in “the gigantic cinematic canvas of historical change in Russia,”
David Lynch By the Decade
A look back at David Lynch’s fifty-plus year career in film, decade by decade