Lucy Corin Picks Up Where Virginia Woolf Left Off
The episodes of The Swank Hotel are weird because the world is weird. And the world is even weirder when the person you love most on earth might be dead but you still have to go to work.
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The Best Picture Wins Best Picture
My hope, in the end, is that the incessant hype around Avatar didn’t simply annoy voters until they voted against it, out of nothing more than spite.
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The Magisterial Goal
Soccer broadcaster Ray Hudson values hyperbole over precision. His quips, spontaneous and unedited, conflating science and art, have gained him a reputation as one the most notorious announcers in all of sports.
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The Holy Trinity: Three Iraq War Films Define a New Apolitical Aesthetic
For the last five years, movies about America’s various Middle East conflicts have been, broadly speaking, polemical, didactic, and forgettable. Then came The Hurt Locker, The Messenger, and now Brothers.
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The Death of the Absurd?
Laura van den Berg’s debut collection manages to establish an equilibrium between concept and poignancy.
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Precious and Pain
Precious is much more than an exposé of poverty or an argument against government aid. It earns its optimism, if only because the labors necessary to achieve that hope are so awful.
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