Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019–2025 Superhero and many other inspiring icons

and many other inspiring icons

As Nili’s father slips deeper into dementia

a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities

from picnics in the high alpine meadows all the way to the distant streets of Frankfurt and a city life she could never have imagined

Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019–2025 Superhero and many other inspiring iconsA. S. Hamrahs writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely. Elif Batuman Unerring (Bookforum), hilarious (Dana Spiotta), our ages most irreplaceable critic (Guernica), a genius (Kenyon Review), A. S. Hamrah returns with an extraordinary collection of his best film writing for n+1, The Baffler, The New York Review of Books, the Criterion Collection, and other publications. Algorithm of