Richard Carter

Content by Richard Carter

Chasing a fleeting film image

Issue: September, 2002
In Paul Auster's new novel, The Book of Illusions, the figure at the center of the story a promising slapstick comedian named Hector Mann literally disappeared without trace in 1929. Read more »
The pain of returning home

Issue: October, 2002
In Milan Kundera's new novel, Ignorance, two Czech Å½migrÅ½s have been talked into returning to the country of their birth after having been away for 20 years. Read more »