“You don’t need opera, the grandeur of apparitions and murderous confessions, to access horror. Not in America, anyway”

“Sofia’s crime is not her betrayal of the documentarian’s fiduciary duty to biographical explication but the tasteful neutering of Marc’s histrionic import”

“Spaulding attempts to repair a critical vocabulary that has long known what to do with Duchampian skepticism, but is much less sure about Beuysian belief”

“Liden’s most poignant messages, concerning the ongoing ‘redactions’ of public speech in Germany, are indirect”