And what Guardians of the Galaxy gets at least a little right.
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Tupac Shakur’s work is as resonant today—days after a police officer shot Michael Brown and left his body in the street—as it was then: an indicator of still-grim realities.
The line between proud ignorance and sniggering sanctimony.
Emily Carroll’s debut book, Through the Woods, is full of doomed characters who often feel deserving of the grisly punishment coming their way. The stories are personal, in other words.
Like Wipeout, minus the schadenfreude and with a solemn appreciation of people with freakish upper-body strength.
When bored, our brains react in different ways—but when engaged, they march in mental lockstep.
In hindsight, 2008 may have been the wrong time to try to sell luxury loungewear with the tagline, "Let Them Eat Tracksuits."
At the heart of Siri Hustvedt’s recent novel, The Blazing World, is a work of art conjured up for the story itself. Would the Man Booker-shortlisted book have been as successful if this fictitious exhibition didn’t seem real enough for our own world?
From the rat’s nest of a Lower East Side studio of Stranger Than Paradise to the ... rat’s-nest of a crumbling Detroit mansion of Only Lovers Left Alive, Jarmusch’s work always feels vaguely familiar—and yet, not quite like anything else.
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