The October 5th edition of The New Yorker is not happy. <\/p>\n
Movies<\/strong>: “As a piece of moviemaking craft, ‘A Serious Man,’ is fascinating; in every other way, it’s intolerable.” Theater<\/strong>: “You feel as though you were watching not the play you’ve read but a sketch for an idea about a play.” Opera<\/strong>: “[H]e has failed to find a clear angle on ‘Tosca,’ and instead delivered an uneven, muddled, weirdly dull production that interferes fatally with the workings of Puccini’s perfect contraption.” Fiction<\/strong>: “Powers has for some time been writing fiction by dictation, with the help of speech-recognition software. Not enough help, alas: on the current evidence he also needs bullshit-recogntion software.” Television<\/strong>: “The forensic evidence so far indicates that a kind of death is taking place before our eyes; the only question is whether what we’re witnessing is an accident or a crime scene.”<\/p>\n The arts feature is about Michael Haneke and his sadistic movies. The news feature is about violent gangs in Rio de Janeiro. The opening essay, about the financial system, concludes: “The next time the structure starts to lurch and sway, it could all fall down.” <\/p>\n The happiest piece is a Letter from Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The October 5th edition of The New Yorker is not happy. Movies: “As a piece of moviemaking craft, ‘A Serious Man,’ is fascinating; in every other way, it’s intolerable.” Theater: “You feel as though you were watching not the play you’ve read but a sketch for an idea about a play.” Opera: “[H]e has failed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}