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Isaac Butler

Isaac Butler is a writer and director. His latest project, Real Enemies, a live multimedia examination of conspiracy theories and paranoia in American life, premieres at Brooklyn Academy of Music in November 2015.

August 2016

  • US Open tennis tournament<br>epa01477571 Roger Federer of Switzerland runs down a backhand return to Gilles Muller of Luxembourg during their quarter finals round match on the eleventh day of the 2008 US Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA on 04 September 2008. EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT

    How David Foster Wallace illuminates the US Open – even without Federer

    Collection of Wallace’s tennis writing released this year reminds us of his insights into math and metaphysics, and how a star’s greatest opponent is himself

April 2016

  • Black Panther issue 1 press image

    Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther review – a promising, subversive start

    With the long-awaited new edition of the Marvel star, Coates and his illustrator, Brian Stelfreeze, have delivered on their promise of a ‘dramatic upheaval’

October 2015

  • Welcome to Night Vale Radio

    Welcome to Night Vale: book attempts to can the uncanny and falls flat

    The hit podcast is absurd and hilarious, and as a book it’s similarly entertaining, but the cosmic horror satire makes it difficult for readers to invest in the story
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