Featuring: Emily Baumgaertner reporting on cruel indifference to medical need at the border, Noah Berlatsky on delusional responses to current events, and Molly Young on olfactory adventures. Continue reading Outside Reading — When a Stranger Sojourns with You in Your Land edition
Call it Cincy Rock. Continue reading This Week’s Model — The Ophelias, “Soft and Tame”
Reviews of new albums from Nailah Hunter and Ducks Ltd. Continue reading Medium Rotation — Lovegaze; Harm’s Way
Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, 1956). Peered at through the binoculars of modern retrospection, it’s nearly impossible to look at this nineteen-fifties film noir and not see Fargo in one of the lenses. The Coen brothers classic shared a lot of DNA … Continue reading Then Playing — Nightfall; Rock ‘n’ Roll High School; The Long Good Friday
Reviews of the comedy that ended Elaine May’s directing career, a weak drama with a fine Emma Thompson performance, and a documentary about Linda Ronstadt. Continue reading Then Playing — Ishtar; The Children Act; Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Whitewash by Nikole Hannah-Jones Writing for The New York Times Magazine, Nikole Hannah-Jones uses her acumen as a historian and her insightfulness as a journalist to go deep on U.S. conservatives’ longstanding, hateful crusade against Black citizenry achieving basic equality … Continue reading Outside Reading — Negative Action edition
Cloud Nothings are still Cloud Nothings, and that’s a very good thing. Continue reading This Week’s Model — Cloud Nothings, “Running Through the Campus”
Reviews of Katy Kirby’s sophomore album and the Last Dinner Party’s debut. Continue reading Medium Rotation — Blue Raspberry; Prelude to Ecstasy
Reviews of films directed by Emerald Fennell, Elaine May, and Jack Smight. Continue reading Then Playing — Saltburn; A New Leaf; Kaleidoscope
Reviews of new albums by glass beach, PACKS, and Chemtrails. Continue reading Medium Rotation — Plastic Death; Melt the Honey; The Joy of Sects
