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“The Jungle Is Obscene”— Werner Herzog’s Visceral Nature Writing

This month’s issue of Harper’s features a fantastic collection of diary entries by German film director Werner Herzog. These entries are excerpted from the forthcoming book Conquest of the Useless:...

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More Excerpts from Werner Herzog’s Conquest of the Useless

Last month, we were delighted to read some excerpts from Conquest of the Useless, Werner Herzog‘s forthcoming account of the making of his epic Fitzcarraldo (we wrote about it here). The paragons of...

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“When you shoot an elephant, it stays on its feet for ten days before it...

Iquitos, 29 June 1979 When you shoot an elephant, it stays on its feet for ten days before it falls over. When I got back on the ice after two minutes in the penalty box, a puck struck hard from a...

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