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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

Grace, Oddity: The Generous David Bowie

Bowie was the one who alerted me to pop as a medium, its shimmering fields of plastic. Even his most mercenary projects were sincere in the gesture’s moment.

The Myth of the Myth of the City of Love

Does Paris Syndrome, a sickness of dashed expectations, even exist? 

The Saint of the Outsider: Growing Up with David Bowie

Listening to Bowie gave you the strength to be strange. 

Simply Everything: On David Bowie

Bowie was a suave enigma who never quite cared about connecting—it hardly seems appropriate to mourn him as a flesh and blood human being. Yet the music he leaves behind has a life of its own.

The Baudy, Electric

A great heaving portion of pleasure comes from the mystery of sex. No wonder humans most often use metaphors to talk about fucking. 

'The Next Portugal Will Be a Different One': An Interview with Miguel Gomes

The director of Arabian Nights on Godard as the master of clash, "artisanal blockbusters," and why cinema is like electricity.