Impermanent Resident
September 20, 2022
The purgatory of America’s broken visa system.
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Celtic Twilight
September 19, 2022
Two new books evoke a rural Ireland of Arcadian memory and grim reality.
Fresh Hell
September 16, 2022
No Future
As Elizabeth II’s seventy-year long reign of terror comes to an end, and King Charles Sausage Fingers Paddington Rumplestump Bangers and Crisps III ascends the throne, Britain has been thrown into hugger-mugger, harum-scarum, utter balderdash: bike racks have ...
Consider the Chickens
Are humans stupid when it comes to understanding animals and nature?
On the Other Side of Despair
September 15, 2022
Reading Camus in a time of nihilism and despair.
The Screw Tapes
September 14, 2022
On DJ Screw and the Houston rap scene.
Editions of You
September 13, 2022
In every dream home a heartache/And every step I take/Takes me further from heaven.
Point. Click. Occupy.
September 12, 2022
Warfare has simply become a white-collar tech job.
Fresh Hell
September 09, 2022
It’s Just a Jump to the Left
I have always admired the writer Iain Sinclair for the extraneous vowel in his name and the execrable titles he gives his excellent books, like Slow Chocolate Autopsy, in which we meet Norton, confined to London’s city limits but free to roam ...
Playback Mode
September 08, 2022
In praise of haunting melodies.
The Infinite Previous
September 07, 2022
Images of Florida.
Cinema Is Never on Time
September 06, 2022
On the late film critic Serge Daney.