Prelude to Ecstasy The Last Dinner Party (Island, 2024) London-based indie/baroque rock band The Last Dinner Party makes an impressive debut with Prelude to...
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Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat opens, very nearly, with a familiar scenario: a dispiriting encounter between a young artist with an exacting creative vision and a...
Avatar: The Last Airbender Developed by Albert Kim (Netflix, 2024) On one hand, Avatar: The Last Airbender is familiar, almost predictable. Repeatedly, Avatar...
In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell, best known for his photorealistic depictions of everyday American life, painted the now-iconic picture of 6-year-old Ruby...
Zero at the Bone By Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) Despair hits differently at different times, and sometimes what hits isn’t despair, but a...
Back to Moon Beach Kurt Vile (Verve Forecast, 2023) If you’re not listening to Kurt Vile’s latest release, the EP Back to Moon Beach, on repeat, you need to...
A Murder at the End of the World Created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (FX, 2023) In murder mysteries, why do audiences fixate on the killers? What about...
bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision by Nadra Nittle (Fortress Press, 2023) Writer, scholar, and public intellectual bell hooks is known as a feminist, not a...
Phasor Helado Negro (4AD, 2024) Phasor, the eighth studio album from electronic musician Roberto Carlos Lange (stage name Helado Negro), was born out of two...
Killers of the Flower Moon Directed by Martin Scorsese (Paramount, 2023) An “Incompetent”: one who is not legally permitted to freely wield one’s own resources...
