“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”

“What still amazes me, and what I envy, is this: Fried intuited that his taste in contemporary art had a historical basis”

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