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By Alvin Lu. Nicholas Rombes, The Rachel Condition (CLASH Books, 2024) If Nicholas Rombes’s first novel, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, relies on descriptions of unseeable movies, supposedly by Deren, Lynch, Jodorowsky, etc., for …

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at Brazil’s home-made characters. CAPITAO SEVEN (Captain Seven) Secret Identity: Carlos (last name unknown) Debut Year: Early 1950s Origin: Teenage science nerd Carlos …

Zadie Smith on teaching creative writing in New York (spotted by Padraig Reidy):They said workshop, so I took a story of mine that I’d written when I was young and was bad, and marked it …

The central work of the exhibition, The Owl, The Travellers and The Cement Drain (2024) is a filmic essay that reveals a series of hypnotic scenes from the forest that are complemented by an unstable, …

Film Companion piece on most streamed shows released in India, done in partnership with Ormax Recently, the media criticism platform Film Companion partnered with Ormax on a regular feature which listed the five most viewed …

Happy 2024, everyone! I don’t know if there’s some symbolism behind this year’s J.C. Leyendecker New Year’s baby that I’m missing, or if it’s just a baby knight riding a mechanical horse and using a …

LP – Kohlhaas The two tracks presented here by Giovanni Lami are the result of multiple field recordings captured during a residency held in Cotignola in the Ravenna province in Italy. Monumento Fiume adds to …

So what's going on with Trump and all these contempt fine and threats about throwing him behind bars? An associate of the Legal Eagle explains… [...]Read More... from Today's Video Link

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Arthur Conan Doyle? Edgar Allan Poe? Dorothy L. Sayers? Apocryphal? Picture of a magnifying glass on a wooden table from Unsplash Question for Quote Investigator: A famous fictional detective once explained the methodology for solving …

After seeing the video for “Actor Out of Work” by St Vincent, and especially after the performance on Austin City Limits, I was blown away. It felt like the first genuinely new music I’d heard …

Michael Grasso / February 21, 2024 Near the end of Richard Nixon’s first term, the forces of conservatism and reaction were in the ascendancy in America. This public resurgence of “traditional values” was itself a …