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…
Book On The Shelf: The Man In The High Castle
Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle is the most distressed I have…
MAUS: A Tragicomic, Tragic Comic
When Maus first came out, many people were shocked not just at how well Art…
Ellroycast #2: the Public Intellectual
Introducing: the Ellroycast
The debut episode of a podcast about all things James Ellroy, featuring Son of Griff and…
Year of the Month: David “Rosy Fingers” McFarlane on Agatha Christie’s 1934.
1934 turned out to be a banner year for Agatha Christie. Fourteen years into her…
Karel Čapek’s “NOETIC” TRILOGY (Year of the Month)
A shocking murder disrupts the placid surface of a small Bohemian farming community. The mangled…