Readings

'If You Make the Same Film Twice You'll Make it Forever': An Interview with Ben Wheatley

Talking with the director of High-Rise about the challenges of adapting J.G. Ballard, the benefits of setting a film in the Seventies, and how genre can give and take away.

'A Story Hollywood Can't Stop Telling About Itself': An Interview with Karina Longworth

The host of the film podcast You Must Remember This on Howard Hughes, A Star is Born, and capitalism.

House Hunting with Martha Gellhorn

The legendary war correspondent found domesticity and adventure are not easily balanced.

A Quiet Force

Remembering Katherine Dunn.

How Am I Going To Make Fun Of The New Radiohead Album Without Listening To It?

Not knowing what I’m talking about has probably been a hindrance in ways I am blessedly unaware of, but ultimately, my being wildly wrong about anything and everything hurts no one, not even me.

The Cat Psychic

I was trying to accustom myself to the fact that Musa didn’t want to be my pet anymore. And then a friend gave me a phone number.

How Do We Live With Our Elders?

Are we in it together if someone refuses the context needed to see this thing changed?

Between Loneliness and Imagination

Though I’ve lived in more “storied” places, the physical space of the suburbs has shaped me more than any other.

Alone in the Jungle

The art of the story itself hinges on orphans: without them, the novel might never have been conceived.