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Working Landscapes

John Merrick

May 05, 2022

Barry Hines’s pastoral fiction offers an antidote to the British country house novel.

Lost in the Supermarket

Rhian Sasseen

May 04, 2022

Browsing the literature of the grocery store

Bad Seeds

Matt Hanson

April 28, 2022

There are rotten branches in our family trees.

A Fabric of Surfaces

Victoria Baena

April 27, 2022

Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John reaches across the years to pose questions of art, love, and self-possession.

Ask Dr. Mueller

Jeremy Lybarger

April 26, 2022

A downtown icon and John Waters muse, Cookie Mueller was devoted to beauty and pleasure.

Strangers in our Midst

John Washington

April 12, 2022

How Western governments debar and criminalize populations from countries they have invaded and exploited.

Weak at the Knees

James Wham

April 07, 2022

“Ahed’s Knee” has little to say about the gravest crimes of the state it sets out to criticize.

Silver Screen Sphinxes

Christina Newland

April 04, 2022

How Greta Garbo and Buster Keaton invented celebrity privacy.

He, Robot

Ian Wang

March 31, 2022

“After Yang” struggles to be more than a metaphor.

Reality Bites Back

Andrew Schenker

March 30, 2022

Has David Shields given his very last interview?

Heavily Made Up

Jessa Crispin

March 25, 2022

Don't look now, but it's “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”

The World Was Just an Address

A. S. Hamrah

March 24, 2022

The Oscars are the abandoned auto show of the movie industry.