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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

mailchi.mp/431d9b1fa2c9... Out now

J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

www.tabletmag.com/sections/art... Renewed attention to this undead creature inspired me to revisit my 2020 piece. I don't write for Tablet anymore but appreciate that they published it as written. (My new anthology Across the Movi-Verse has another Tablet piece on another vampire, Nosferatu).

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My Roy Cohn, and Ours - Arts & Letters - Tablet Magazine

Two recent documentaries, one of them streaming tonight, try to unpack the McCarthyite Trump-whisperer—progenitor of the postmodern political world we n...

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... Amrum—a German movie about the end of WWII as experienced by a boy on the N Sea island for which the film ia titles—is both exotic & familiar. (Indeed, my own family also has WWII–era ties to Amrum & like the film, their story has elements of a German volksmärchen.)

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Ghosts of Amrum | J. Hoberman

The story of Amrum—a German movie about the last days and immediate aftermath of World War II as experienced by a twelve-year-old boy on the isolated

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

www.villagevoice.com/stars-hype-f... Walk down memory lane: 41+ years after piece appeared in print, the vestigial Voice puts it online (and dig the cover line-up complete w Warhol). Those were the days. Thanks Bob!

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Stars & Hype Forever: In 1985, Ronald Reagan’s Reelection Represented the “Triumph of the Irrational” - The Village Voice

J. Hoberman's 1985 Village Voice essay covered Ronald Reagan's propensity to comfort the rich and punch down on the needy.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Copies of my anthology Across the Movi-Verse will be available. It has an essay on the film: "New ideas typically arrive from the margins. Thus, postmodern cinema comes by way of Africa. Working out his particular destiny as an ethnographer in the colonies, Jean Rouch invented the French New Wave."

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m... Rambunctious bad boy of the New Queer Cinema, Gregg Araki burst on the indie scene w his youth-centric sex romps. Now restored, Mysterious Skin (2005) elevated his game to a new level. Tender as it is, this visionary tale of child abuse still packs a wallop.

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‘Mysterious Skin’: One of the Great Movies of the Early 2000s (Gift Article)

Gregg Araki’s coming-of-age drama, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, tracks the story of two traumas with one source: a baseball coach.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m... Less melodrama than meta-drama, the first movie to address the history of Chinese film — conflating the golden age of Shanghainese cinema (and Shanghai) w that of Hong Kong. Maggie Cheung proves herself a unique silent star — as contemporary as she is anachronistic.

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‘Center Stage’: A Star of Shanghai’s 1930s Heyday Is (Re)Born (Gift Article)

This 1991 film is at once a biopic devoted to the Chinese silent-film star, Ruan Lingyu, and a self-reflexive documentary starring Maggie Cheung.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/m... Dostoyevsky’s "White Nights" is a 1st-person case history of unrequited love. Visonti's daringly set-bound version transposes it from summer-solstice mid-19th C Petersburg to wintry mid-20th C Livorno—less adaptation than expression of his own unrealistic longing

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‘White Nights’: A Loner’s All-Consuming Crush (Gift Article)

Immaculately realized and restored, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s short story about a chance encounter on a bridge arrives at Film Forum.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

apnews.com/article/rahm... No fan of Rahm g-d knows but whatever his motives I gotta like this. Can't wait to see him attacked as a self-hating antiSemite or Hamas stooge by the ADL, Bret Stephens, Ben-Kvir, Tablet & whatever Republican neo-crusaders are still out there.

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Rahm Emanuel will assail Netanyahu in Tel Aviv speech as American politics shift against Israel

Potential Democratic presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel plans to deliver a strong message in Tel Aviv about U.S.-Israeli relations being "at a crossroads."

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In what official capacity

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

www.nytimes.com/athletic/742... The king Midas of shitification strikes again, transforming a team of plucky underdogs into a demoralized band of overentitled losers. (Meanwhile, the perpetually snakebit Mets rallied 2x in the 9th & 10th innings to beat the Atlanta bullies.)

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USMNT’s World Cup ends vs. Belgium with sloppy last-16 showing; Balogun non-factor after controversy (Gift Article)

The U.S. bows out after being unable to overcome a sloppy performance. Our writers in Seattle analyze the defeat to the Belgians

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This published 8 years ago. The KKK helped shut the Golden Door in 1924. Trump's father was arrested at a violent Klan rally in Jamaica, Queens, Memorial Day 1927. I've always figured him supporting the Nazi-loving German American Bund--wish someone could prove it. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Asked google a.i. for "Barn with cows. Farmer on stool milking tranquil cow marked USA. Farmer has Trump features. Standing behind holding out empty pails are two farm boys marked Don Jr and Eric. This should be drawn in the style of newspaper cartoonist Herblock"

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Possible example of American exceptionalism: Is ours the world's first or only the world's most blatant kleptocracy?

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u... Another parapraxic tell: Watergate is only negligible in comparison to Trump's unending cascade of impeachable (not to mention criminal) offenses. Ambitious Vance naturally identifies w an elderly president's sparky young VP (albeit one a bit brighter than he).

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Vance Downplays Watergate and Compares Himself to Nixon

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/w... Tel Aviv dep mayor Asaf Zamir: "I’m a left wing 2-state pro-peace Israeli but I’m not blind or crazy. I know the situation in Israel & we’re not those things we’re being called yet more & more Americans are buying into & voting on those grounds. That troubles me."

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Israelis See Their Friendship With the U.S. Slipping Away

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Good Trouble on Morningside Hgts: So is Columbia gonna acknowledge that prospective Congress-women Darializa Avila Chevalier & Claire Valdez were both associated w the university? DAC = grad student in sociology & CV = program asst in visual arts dept. (Also both were organizers w my old union UAW)

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u... Haitians (and Haiti) STILL being punished for their successful revolution

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Justices Clash on Whether Race Played a Role in Trump’s Bid to Deport Haitians

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Master of parapraxic disclosure Trump is chasing his shadow. Anyone not part of his cult can see that the "Radical Lunatic" defacing the national Reflecting Pool (the White House, the National Mall, the US Constitution), is Trump himself--right again.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u... Read thru to the end to get the full extent to which the Trump regime aims to rewrite American history in blatant white supremacist terms--it's a tryout for a new gradeschool syllabus that combines white-washing with brainwashing.

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A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u... 'Mr. Trump blamed at least some of the problems on “vandalism” by people who he said were out “to destroy and demean our beautiful work.”' Speaking about himself per usual. Trump is the King Midas of shitification. Everything (& everybody) he touches, turns to shit

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The Reflecting Pool Appears to Be Rejecting Its Makeover

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u... Why not "Inside Hegseth's White Supremacist Agenda"? Let him sue for libel if he dares.

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Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w... “Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time ," Mr Vance said. Uh-oh. As Paul (a/k/a Saul) might have told Bibi "A man reaps what he sows."

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Vance Lashes Out at Israeli Critics of U.S.-Iran Agreement to End the War

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w... Welcome to our world Bibi! No matter how much the Dear Leader (a/k/a טאקו) thinks he done for the Jewish people, the writing was on the wall when son-in-law Jared pivoted from developing the Gaza beachfront to Albania's.

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Israel, Stunned by Trump’s Iran Deal, Sees It as a ‘Catastrophic Capitulation’

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o... Q: Why is this "bargain" better than all other bargains? A: B/c although it only cost the US $29 billion (plus est $130 billion losses to the economy) & less than 10,000 Iranians & Lebanese have died, it is essentially a weaker version of the Obama/Kerry deal.

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Opinion | This Is Not a Grand Bargain With Iran. Good.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/m... Designated pull-quote: "Blatantly amateurish chunk of no-budget, lo-fi cinematic antimatter"

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‘Curse of the Seven Jackals’: A Film Made to Be Exhumed

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Tara Dublin, Rock Star Author📚❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @taradublinrocks.com · 05/06/2026

This is what it should look like in front of the White House every day

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Big test for boss Dolan protection-wise. Big test also for Mayor Mamdani who piggybacked a campaign ad on Knicks's Wed win and has said he'll be there too. What's the seating plan? Will Spike scrunch over for Zohru?

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/06/2026

I expect to hear the booing in my apartment 17 blocks north of the Garden.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Can't wait for the Don to announce DC's classy new ICE concentrate camp

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