The Friday Article Roundup: Will That Fly?
This Week You Will Test the Possibilities of: watching movies blind Gerard Butler wrestling personas…
Year of the Month: Miller on MOSTLY HARMLESS
What we call the internet — a word that at root describes connection more than…
The Absurd Weight of Existence: Persia on Camus in 1942
If you want to talk about Camus, you have to talk about war. Technically, there…
Year of the Month: 55 Years of 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Content note: This article contains references to sexual assault, including of minors, and incest I…
The Solute Book Club: the Book of J, an Introduction
Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. (Cormac McCarthy) The…
Year of the Month: How to Read HOW TO READ DONALD DUCK
At first, How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic might seem…
Year of the Month: Quinn Bailey on THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
In the 1970s and ’80s, horror fiction came crawling back from the grave once again,…
THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD (Year of the Month)
I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age.…
Year of the Month: Mr. Apollo on CRASH
According to David Cronenberg, the idea of adapting J. G. Ballard’s novel Crash came, appropriately…
Taco Break: Interiority
The commentary track on Criterion’s edition of The Limey is famous for its sparring match…