Colonialism and Its Ghosts in Dennis Mombauer’s “The House of Drought” – Chicago Review of Books

Colonialism and Its Ghosts in Dennis Mombauer’s “The House of Drought” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The ghosts of Dennis Mombauer’s The House of Drought are many, as many as there are allegories. The established fact of extraction, the ritual of sacrifice, the deviance of the unknown—these are its themes. None of these beasts are as powerful as the global narrative that has already been spinning: the irreversibility of climate … Read more

Dennis Hopper’s Gilded Days in “Everybody Thought We Were Crazy” – Chicago Review of Books

Dennis Hopper’s Gilded Days in “Everybody Thought We Were Crazy” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Brooke Hayward describes her years married to Dennis Hopper as “the most wonderful and awful of my life.” In Mark Rozzo’s hands, this goes double for the 1960s, a decade their marriage almost perfectly spanned. His new book Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is an exhaustively researched portrait of Hopper and Hayward’s marriage as … Read more