“Once they’re infected; they’re already dead.” Se Jeong, Colony I walked out of a film at the Roxy Theater in San Francisco last night to find a very disturbed young man lying on the ground, convulsi...

The Bride!: Love, Loneliness, and the Frankenstein Myth

I can’t believe I never finished Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy. Now I have. (No hot takes about Cusk’s recent controversy, I promise.)

The soft power of colonialism in Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace.

For those marginalized by convention, haunted by feelings of strangeness, mistreatment, and disengagement, the world may not seem like it’s for you, but this film is.

Sometimes Less Is More

A new crime-fiction saga created and written by Rockstar Games co-founder DAN HOUSER (Grand Theft...

The “Sister Ray” sized history of the VU we deserve

Republishing previous thoughts on the Homer’s The Odyssey today for some very obvious reasons. https://dngolden77.substack.com/p/the-odyssey?r=sluhp&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%...

“What made us buy a nightmare?” — Lydia in “The Veldt,” Ray Bradbury, 1950

Blast from the Past: A friend just asked me if I’ve ever read Infinite Jest. Yes, but I was shocked it was in 2015. Time flies. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e69f5967-95ef-46d0-aa7f-ce6309...

Danielewski’s House of Leaves 25 Years Later - still scaring the hell out of me but for different reasons.

He wanted devotion. He got it.

The goofy optimism of Star Trek as a message for America's 250th

Publisher Marketing:Overwhelmed by the weight of everyday life, our narrator leaves the familiar...

A review of You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm

The Mad and the Bad, Jean-Patrick Manchette This early novel by French noir maestro Jean-Patrick Manchette is a caustically funny, absurd page-turner. Michel Hartog, a wealthy architect and philanthr...

“Your heart is so bright it puts the gods to shame." Indeed. This take on Wonder Woman poignant, funny, fierce, and ennobling. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8643002486

A bureaucratic SF thriller? Yes! And an examination of how different cultures define the individual. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2850919433

In I Love Boosters, Boots Riley turns Marxist theory, labor politics, and sci-fi absurdism into something unexpectedly funny and alive. Following a trio of stylish shoplifters, the film satirizes how...

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Javier Bardem is on magnificent form as a volatile filmmaker attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter, but Rodrigo Soroyen's…

Lately, I’ve been surprised by my own reluctance to join protests and rallies, even protests whose causes I support. The hesitation felt suspicious, perhaps a failure I couldn’t quite diagnose. Was I...

“Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we ar…

“behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we — I mean all human beings — are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art.” Virginia Woolf. ...

I have a new appreciation for Marianne Faithfull, as an artist and an icon, after seeing the new documentary - Broken English. Yes, the concept of the Ministry of Not Forgetting is silly, but even tha...

Camus in Black and White — The Stranger Gets Its Shadow Back

Transcending the era and theatre itself, Brook get at what makes public art indispensable.

Hell is other people, and perhaps worst of all, yourself.

When the revolution gets Lost in Seattle

Creating space for freedom

A director and society on the verge

The dialectics of popular music - a super entertaining history of folk-rock that shows how music evolves in response to cultural and commercial interests.

Sorcerer (1977) — A Review Few excel at building and sustaining tension like William Friedkin, particularly with characters in close quarters. Think of the subway sequences in The French Connection o...

Now this is a Wonder Woman worthy of her greek myth origins. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/039006de-9155-446a-ae44-a6ab612fa936

“To exclude the anecdotal aspect of the image, this is what I try to do in the graphic arts” Jean Widmer. There is no end to the nearly perfect graphic. Here are a couple.

“To exclude the anecdotal aspect of the image, this is what I try to do in the graphic arts” Jean Widmer. There is no end to the nearly perfect graphic. Here are a couple.

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