Gideon Leek

Author Archive

  • Sep 16, 2025
    “There was no question that we would immediately connect and fuse together, becoming inseparable,” thinks Ruth, the narrator of Stephanie Wambugu’s debut...
  • Sep 3, 2025
    Paul Thomas Anderson is taking another strike at Thomas Pynchon in One Battle After Another, a modern-day reworking of the reclusive author’s 1990...
  • Jul 25, 2025
    WHEN I WAS 20 years old at liberal arts college, I became hyperaware of my racing heartbeat at the Cleveland Cinematheque. Unfortunately, I happened to be watching Béla...
  • May 27, 2025
    A painter and a businessman, an emigre and an epicurean, W. Dieter Zander was an oddity typical of the shifting currents of the midcentury;  his collection of six hundred...
  • May 12, 2025
    “We played the fool talking with long-legged words so as to mock the bastards who feed off human sorrow.” This is the mantra of Hugues and Habéké, the child...
  • Feb 26, 2025
    “IN MY EXPERIENCE painters are far less conventional than writers,” says Rachel Cusk in her 2014 novel Outline. Writers, hesitant about filling their novels...