Contributors
Daniel Garrett
Daniel Garrett, a child of the American south, Louisiana, where he grew up reading, taking photographs, and enjoying fishing and a good summer barbecue. Daniel moved to New York and became a graduate of the New School for Social Research, was an intern at Africa Report, poetry editor for the male feminist magazine Changing Men, founded and acted as principal organizer of the Cultural Politics Discussion Group at ABC No Rio and Poets House, wrote about painter Henry Tanner for Art & Antiques, and organized the first interdepartmental environmental justice meeting at Audubon. Long interested in human complexity, intelligence, experiment, and cultural diversity, Garrett has researched various cultures, and he wrote about fiction and poetry for World Literature Today and international film for Offscreen, and has done music reviews that constitute a history of popular music for The Compulsive Reader. His work has appeared as well in The African, All About Jazz, American Book Review, Black Film Review, Cinetext, Contact II, Film International, The Humanist, Hyphen, Illuminations, Muse Apprentice Guild, Option, Pop Matters, Quarterly Black Review of Books, Rain Taxi, Red River Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Wax Poetics. He returned to the south, where he worked on philosophical fiction, the novel A Stranger on Earth.
Articles by Daniel Garrett
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Beautiful Love, Despised Love: Maurice, The City of Your Final Destination, and Call Me By Your Name
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First Tragedy, Now Farce: Nixon (The Post and Mark Felt), Reagan (The Reagan Show and American Made) and George W. Bush (W.)
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Faith, Knowledge, Illness, Sacrifice: Stephen and Jane Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything
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Faith and Disbelief, Commerce and Culture: Wadjda and A Hologram for the King, two films with stories inspired by Saudi Arabia
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The Great Beauty, an exceptional film by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Toni Servillo
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Remember This House, and These Men: Abraham Lincoln (Young Mr. Lincoln), Barack Obama (Southside with You), and the Refusal of Reconciliation
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In Dreams and Realities Begin Conflicts and Resolutions: Poitier Revisited and Contemporary Black American Cinema
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Civilization and Savagery: Painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, the subject of Mike Leigh’s film Mr. Turner
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Charm, Courage, and Eruptions of Vulgar Force: Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Innocent Laughter, Intellectual Legacy: Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt