Philip K. Dick

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Latest Articles

Paul Auster sheds light on Man in the Dark
So here he goes again, the writer known as Paul Auster, starting yet another novel, this time with the words “I am alone in the dark.”
By PETER KEOUGH | September 02, 2008

Tricky Dick

Philip K. Dick's second Library of America volume
The Philip K. Dick phenomenon might be petering out.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 28, 2008

Almost Famous: Micah Salkind

Providence Black Repertory Company
"You can’t throw a stone here without hitting an artist."
By FRANK MULLIN | June 04, 2008

Bought and sold

Rampant consumerism and Iván Navarro at Tufts, ‘Some Sort of Uncertainty’ at Axiom
So I’d like to declare that art about consumerism is one of the æsthetic trends of our young millennium.
By GREG COOK | January 22, 2008

Dead white females

From Fall Out Boy to One Night in Paris , modern pop culture is what it is today thanks to 10 long-expired ladies
Can you remember the last time you curled up under the covers with Marcel Proust’s I n Search of Lost Time ?
By SHARON STEEL | August 08, 2007

Heat waves

Summer reads to cool off with
“Summer joys are spoilt by use,” wrote John Keats, meaning the less you do between June and August, the better.
By JOHN FREEMAN | June 28, 2007

Ice and fire

Ice Cream’s cold contemporary art, Burning Man’s hot stuff
Burning Man began as a San Francisco pyromaniacs’ beach party in 1986.
By GREG COOK | June 28, 2007

The man who knew too much

Philip K. Dick enters the Library of America
Around the age of 13, Philip K. Dick started having a recurring dream.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 28, 2007

Sifting the trash heap

Things I love about the gold and the garbage in comics
There’s an image in an old Warlock comic book by Jim Starlin that sums up a lot of the peculiar, shared pleasure of reading comics.
By DOUGLAS WOLK | June 28, 2007

Smoking hot

Cigarettes on the silver screen
In honor of May 31, International No Tabacco Day, we’re listing the some of the most seminal smoking scenes on the silver screen.
By PHOENIX STAFF | June 01, 2007

Hell is other sequels

Pirates 3 offers buried treasures
At first, At World’s End doesn’t seem to differ much from the world outside.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 23, 2007

A pendantic thriller
If you know your Philip K. Dick, you know screen adaptations of his work are all over the map.
By TOM MEEK | May 02, 2007

The future of an illusion

Reflections on 40 years spent in the dark
When I first realized that movies would, for better or worse, dominate my imagination forever, I really gave no thought to the forces at work creating these transfiguring images on a screen.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 15, 2006

Unhappy accident

Thom Yorke’s unwitting masterpiece
Don’t let the amicable interviews or the delighted dancing fool you. Thom Yorke is upset.
By WILL SPITZ | July 12, 2006

Scanner brained

Richard Linklater animates Philip K. Dick’s Darkly
In 1977, in his novel A Scanner Darkly , Philip K. Dick invented the perfect drug — at least from society’s point of view. True Dick?: Looking for fidelity to the cyber-punk master. By James Parker
By PETER KEOUGH | July 06, 2006

A slacker darkly

Why Dick likes Dick
"We’re great at declaring war on things that you really can’t technically win," says Richard Linklater. Peter Keough interviews Richard Linklater (podcast mp3) Scanner brained: Richard Linklater animates Philip K. Dick’s Darkly . By Peter Keough True Dick?: Looking for fidelity to the cyber-punk master. By James Parker
By PETER KEOUGH | July 06, 2006

True Dick?

Looking for fidelity to the cyber-punk master
Philip K. Dick saw into the future, man, the FUTURE. Scanner brained: Richard Linklater animates Philip K. Dick’s Darkly . By Peter Keough A slacker darkly: Why Dick likes Dick. By Peter Keough
By JAMES PARKER | July 05, 2006