The Film Stage

J. Hoberman on 1960s New York, Protests, Alternative Press, and Sinners

To paraphrase Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis: Wasn’t I lucky to come of age in my favorite city? For one thing, my impressionable undergraduate years fell during J. Hoberman’s tenure as lead ...
The Nation

J. Hoberman’s Lost New York

In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s. Exterior of The Bitter End coffee house, a venue specializing in live acoustic folk music, Greenwich ...
The Forward

In 1960’s New York, the past was a foreign country — they sure did things differently there

J. Hoberman is one of our best and most prescient cultural critics — and after a dozen or so books, his latest, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde — Primal Happenings, Underground ...
The New Yorker

The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now”

The film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new book, “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” is as jubilantly overstuffed as ...