A disillusioned Gen X-er's lament. PLUS: What music, literature, or art informed your values, and view of the world? A Friday Open Thread...

‘Filtered only through headlines, China had become a political entity more than a physical place where I had grown up, where half of my family still lived.’

'Mandy' is a visionary catalogue of the ways in which we attempt to survive, embrace, or succumb to the pain of living with death, and what happens when we lose the one thing that holds our world toge...