Arthur Hoyle

Arthur Hoyle is a writer, independent filmmaker, and educator living in Southern California. He writes biography and has also published essays on America's cultural scene in Huffington Post, Empty Mirror, Across the Margin, Counterpunch, AIOTB: As It Ought to Be, Terror House Magazine, and The Mindful Word. Before writing for publication, he made documentary films and served as an administrator and teacher in independent schools.

Book Reviews by Arthur Hoyle

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Emily Raboteau is a 47-year-old Black woman of mixed race, who lives in the Bronx, NY, with her husband and two adolescent sons.

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“Jowitt has given us . . . a useful reference source for scholars, dance professionals, and devoted followers of Martha Graham.”

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The book is neither a memoir nor an argument, but rather a scramble of recollections, anecdotes, and pronouncements about the movie business, spiced with off-color jokes a

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“Herzog has a mystical sense of truth as a form of knowing that cannot be put into words. It can only be experienced.

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Annie Ernaux, the 2022 Nobel Prize-winning writer, was a single woman in her fifties when she began an affair with a university student 30 years her junior who had written asking to meet her.

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Can we recover our lost enchantment with the natural world before it turns on us?”

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This book collects articles and essays written by Michael Peppiatt, one of Europe’s leading art critics, across the span of his career.

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“madness can be both a teacher and a scourge, can be transformative, can place us in the company of visionaries like William Blake as well as the residents of Bedlam.”

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The resilience of the Crafts, their determination not to allow racism to break their spirits, is the human core of their story . . .”

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Joyce Chopra was part of a wave of women filmmakers who came to Hollywood in the ‘70s and ’80s, bringing with them fresh viewpoints and human stories.

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“Gordon’s purpose has been to call attention to the vital role that women played in Eliot’s personal life and his development as a writer.”

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Here is a beautiful book that belongs in the library of every lover of literature and every lover of fine portrait photography.

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Folk Music is not a conventional biography, and readers hoping to find in it details of Bob Dylan’s personal life will have to search elsewhere.

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Plagues and epidemics, in various forms, have been a feature of recorded human history for over 3000 years.

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In the winter of 1949 the celebrated French avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau came to New York to give a talk at the screening of his latest film, The Eagle with Two Heads.

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a page-turning account that penetrates the character of a most exceptional human being who was both a product of his age and an astute observer of its mores.”

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Two of the most famous 20th century artistic salons were the Bloomsbury Group in London, a literary community centered on Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude and Leo Stein’s salon, which brought together

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As the book’s subtitle indicates, Camera Man is not a conventional birth-to-death narrative of the life of Buster Keaton.

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“a workmanlike portrait of Chekhov, useful for the general reader curious to learn more about this master of Russian literature . . .”

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Lost in the Valley of Death is a disturbing book that leaves you with a sense of wonder and a sense of unease. It’s a book that is not easy to put down.”

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“Poller’s Aldous Huxley offers readers a clear, thorough guide to Huxley’s metaphysical thought and the process through which it evolved over the course of his career as a writer.”

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James Ivory, now 93 and no longer making films, is one of the most distinguished American filmmakers of the last half-century.

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SelfMadeHero, a small British niche publisher of graphic narratives, has issued The Dancing Plague by Gareth Brookes, an award-winning illustrator and writer.

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“The Hero myth—the drive to seek safety, control and power over the Earth—that has powered Western capitalism and civilization has gone too far.

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“Isn’t the final goal of surrealism, after all, to transform the world?”
—Luis Buñuel

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“Anyone who has walked even a short section of the Appalachian Trail or the Pacific Crest Trail has stepped into this dimension, which is nature’s gift to the human soul.”

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“Run. Fight. Think.”
—Sebastian Junger

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“There is more to say about war than it is just bad.”

                                                  —Stanley Kubrick

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The Empathy Diaries should be required reading for men who care about the emotional landscape of women and the health of their own feminine side.”

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“To be born in the street means to wander all your life, to be free. It means accident and incident, drama, movement. It means above all dream . . .”

—Henry Miller

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“There is no frigate like a book

To take us lands away."

—Emily Dickinson