But It’s Mine: Persia on Ownership and Control in the World of FARGO
One of the most famous lines in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning Fargo comes close to…
Year of the Month: Persia on BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
Parenting is terrifying. The author Philip Baruth once described dropping your young child off at…
Year of the Month: Persia on The Chattanooga Choo Choo
Before America had car culture, it had the train. Southern states blocked railway expansion until…
The Halloween Canon: Persia on “Ghostbusters”
There’s something of a known canon of Christmas songs. Most of them are jazz-influenced standards…
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Persia on DUNE
Frank Herbert’s novel Dune is a sprawling epic, crossing planets and decades and centering on…
YOJIMBO: A Movie in Two Worlds by Persia
One man approaches ten, as dust blows dramatically. The two opponents—one ronin, one criminal gang—step…
Year of the Month: Persia on ORPHEUS
Did you know that Jean Cocteau was lucky enough to have the most beautiful lovers…
Year of the Month: Persia on TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
“The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a street gang,” Hannah Gadsby says in her latest…
“I Just Want to Sleep” — Persia on the Narrow, Dark world of THE MACHINIST
The Machinist never really lets up. The skeleton (if you’ll pardon the expression) of the…
I Feel I Have So Many Projects and I Haven’t Completed Them Yet: Roy Horn, 1944-2020–an obituary by Persia
I grew up in the waning days of the variety show, and of big, flashy…