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The Luv Doc: Exposed Flesh
Please remember my disapproval
"...You have a very attractive girlfriend. Worry sort of..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

What’cha Watchin’?
Account Executive Marisa Mirabal gets in the Halloween spirit
"...with the highly stylized and dreamlike cinematography. Writer/director Nicholas Verso created a beautiful tale mixing juvenile antics on Halloween..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Screens Column by Marisa Mirabal

Top Books to Make Sense of a World Breaking Down
Jay Trachtenberg's top reads of 2016 explore a planet in crisis in Israel, rust-belt Ukraine, and the Antarctic
"...The Lamentations of Zeno (Verso), a slender novel by German writer Ilija Trojanow (translated..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Austin Film Festival Full Slate
Marquee names include Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Patton Oswalt
"...in the Trees: Written and directed by by Nicholas Verso (US Premiere)..."

Sept. 14, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Journey Through Hell
Óscar Martínez talks about riding the rails through Mexico to America
"...the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Verso, 224 pp., $26.95), journalist Óscar Martínez shines a klieg..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Arts Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Saramago, In Print and On Film
'José e Pilar' screens tonight, as a new collection debuts
"...The Lives of Things (Verso Books, $23.95) collects the author's "early experiments with the..."

April 25, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

New in Print
Get radicalized: About to Die examines news imagery at the moment of death, while The Verso Book of Dissent spans Zola and Tupac
"...Zelizer Oxford University Press, 432 pp., $24.95 (paper) The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Reading Myself to Sleep
What's currently cluttering Brenner's bedroom, bookwise.
"...Terrorism, part of a series of such Guides from Verso...."

May 13, 2008 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

From Stuff, Art
The 21st 'New American Talent' exhibition features a whopping 72 works of art, many of them created from everyday objects
"...a similar logic at work in Polly Lanning Sparrow's Recto-Verso (3 Configurations) and Mirror by Andrea Myers. Recto-Verso (3..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Summer Reading
"...Verso, 108 pp., $15 (paper) If you know performance artist..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Planet of Slums
As densely footnoted a projection of apocalypse as you could ever read, Mike Davis' Planet of Slums overwhelms as much for its research as for its terrifying and heartbreaking implications
"...Verso, 256 pp., $24 As densely footnoted a projection of..."

April 7, 2006 Books Review by Spencer Parsons

Big Books
"...Verso, 304 pp., $23Hard News: The Scandals at The New..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by James Renovitch

State of Affairs
The current political season is reflected equally in an angry Iraq analysis and a soapy novel with a Sirkian sweep
"...in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq by Tariq Ali Verso, 262 pp., $12..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Difficult Women and Transgressive Daughters
In their reunion performance Difficult Women and Transgressive Daughters, former Hard Women Suze Kemper and Rachel Martin vibrated feminist polemics regarding mother-child scenarios.
"...competition. The ladies fought, then quickly made amends. In "Recto/Verso," a "checking-in" phone conversation between a young woman and..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

VSBR
"...yet steady Reclaim the State: Adventures in Popular Democracy (Verso, $25); local father-daughter team Claude and Michele Stanush's excellent..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Fixing Up the Fringe
Do it yourself? No way. This is the second in a series of articles by Josh Medsker as he attempts to re-establish a zine library in Austin.
"...From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (Verso, 1997)..."

June 13, 2003 Books Feature by Josh Medsker

It's the Thoughts That Count
The folklore of love
"...individuals. Barbecued Husbands and Other Stories From the Amazon (Verso, $21) is good old-fashioned ethnography designed for the nonspecialist...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Books Feature by Rachel Feit

The MonkeyWrench Manifesto
Volunteers of America: If you're feeling sinister, North Loop's newest wants you.
"...Books Project materials, $1 bookshelves, Crimethinc., AK Press, Counterpoint, Verso, 7 Stories, City Lights, Continuum, South End, vegan pamphlets,..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Life Goes On?
"...Soccer in Sun and Shadow, by Eduardo Galeano (Verso, $15 [paper]) is an even more overtly political book..."

June 21, 2002 Books Feature by Nick Barbaro

The Trial of Henry Kissinger
"...Verso, 160 pp., $22..."

May 11, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
"...Verso Books, 344 pp., $25..."

March 23, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

True Hollywood Stories
Men who are women, and women who poison men, and loons who wave guns, and punks who urinate on housewives who happen to love it.
"...Verso Books, 217 pp., $20 (paper)..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Feature by David Garza

Years of the Dead
The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.
"...Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big Cityby Mike Davis Verso Books, 128 pp., $19..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Book Reviews
Recent Titles Reviewed
"...Verso, 284 pp., $23..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Books Feature by Michael King

Lamerica
"...Directed by: Gianni Amelio. Starring: Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli, Piro Milkani, Elida Janushi..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

La Scorta
"...Directed by: Ricky Tognazzi. Starring: Claudio Amendola, Enrico Lo Verso, Carlo Cecchi, Ricky Memphis, Tony Sperandeo, Lorenza Indovina and..."

July 14, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Farinelli
"...Directed by: Gerard Corbiau. Starring: Stéfan Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Jeroen Krabbe, Caroline Cellier, Omero Antonutti and Renaud Du..."

June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ladro Di Bambini (Stolen Children), Il
"...Directed by: Gianni Amelio. Starring: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici and Giuseppe Ieracitano. Set in and around..."

April 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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