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Fairleigh Dickinson University

John Duncan Talbird

The Safety of Home

September 16, 2014

John Duncan Talbird

“Nothing wrong,” says the husband near the end of Shirley Jackson’s story “Paranoia.” But like the couples in David Lynch’s Lost Highway or Michael Haneke’s Caché, who keep being delivered surveillance VHSs—tapes in which, first their homes and then they … Continued

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