Film Review: “Columbus”
“Columbus” is a coherent allegory for contemporary youth’s anomie, isolation and disaffection with itself and its latent (half-hearted) rejection of this directionless state.
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AuthorSusie Davidson
Book Review: “The Sarah Book”
Sometimes when reading something you wonder if people praise certain authors so as to console them for all of the suffering they must
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Play Review: “The Old Man and the Old Moon”
There’s this mystery involving the miners of Appalachia. These men were so totally exploited by foreign mining companies, for such a long time,
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Catching Up and What to Catch Up On: Summer 2k17
Film: “Blade Runner 2049” “Blade Runner” and our conception of neo-noir go hand-in-hand — it was definitional for the genre. Now, after 25
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The Mystery of Disney’s Popularity at UCSD
There is still, someplace in my mind’s archive of vague motifs gathered from entertainment, this anachronistic idea of universities forcing students to cultivate
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Film Review: “Cézanne and I”
Perhaps anything really lovely is never left without the concomitant boringness poachers of beauty train themselves to withstand. Placed squarely before beauty’s blushing
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Book Review: “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”
Like anyone great, Camille Paglia is not for everyone. For the people she is for, she is everything. She is, for a certain
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Book Review: Landscapes: John Berger on Art
With his English accent, full head of wild curls and enthusiastic brilliance, John Berger was an impish pop-star prophet in 1972. His voice
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A Meditation on Late Night TV’s Descent
Late-night television talk shows, like all entertainment, exist to enervate us to the pain of consciousness and distract us from that most human
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