The title of Richard Hell’s new book of poems, What Just Happened, can be taken in several ways. It could be referring to some very recent occurrence, or it could be pointing to an event that appears to lack all cause or reason. With the addition of a question mark, which though absent may be implied, “What Just Happened?” becomes an expression of shock or wonder or puzzlement.
In the shattered and unhinged context in which we find ourselves living, reading Alessandra Bocchetti's latest book Basta lacrime (VandA. editions, 2022)
Jean-Marie Straub has died, aged 89. In tribute, we republish this 2009 examination of his and his wife Danièle Huillet’s decades-long career on the forefront of politically committed filmmaking.
Straub, who has died at the age of 89, was, together with his wife Danièle Huillet, one of the most radical and incendiary of political filmmakers in post-war Germany, Italy and France.