Death by Twitter
On Teju Cole’s small fates Gary Robinson once tried to cut seven people in line at a Church’s Chicken in Miami. It was near closing…
Reader's Digest
A Review of Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac So strange and hectic a phantasmagoria were the…
A Bridge to Somewhere
From the Brooklyn Bridge to One Police Plaza and back again 3:00 pm: The crowd at Zuccotti Park, larger than any day except the one…
Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
The rise of swagger and the increasing irrelevance of haters The past decade has seen the meteoric rise of a new subject position in the…
Fear of an Ape Planet
Debating the blinkered Hollywood take on race in films like The Help and Rise of the Apes only helps perpetuate it Positive or negative, reviews of a new film…
To Sit on a Throne of Teeth, Graced With a Crown of Teeth
This has been a summer of blown opportunities, at least insofar as cinema allegedly devoted to taking those opportunities goes.
The More Things Change
(Images from AD: New Orleans after the Deluge, Josh Neufeld, 2009) NOLA’s Ongoing Disaster By Alex Gecan As I write this in late August, a plume of…
Hometown Unglory
Ash Wednesday: 8:30am, 2004/5 George Shaw’s Tile Hill paintings explore the daunting provisionality — and banality — of identity “A Sly and Unseen Day,” at the…
Vonnegut's Firefighters
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine. —Kurt Vonnegut As we reflect on the heartbreaking, inspirational…
When Jason Walks
Through the shaky hand-held camcorder, it looks like a beautiful day on Maho Beach, located on the Dutch side of St. Maarten. Jets fly in low over the cerulean bay to clear the short runway. The lens points up to the sky; the sun bleaches the atmosphere, and a wave of gas shimmers off a
Aux Armes (or Not)
Sfar would have been better off directing a film entitled Serge Gainsbourg: Badass than attempting to martyrize the misogynistic provocateur.
Upping the Antihero
You’re a good cop, but a loose cannon. Give me your badge and gun. Most Americans could write this scene and probably fill in the…
Standard Gawker English
Writing to please or writing to persuade?
The Ektorp Sofa and the New Normal
I was about to recycle the Harry Potter-length 2011 Ikea catalog when the copy on the cover caught my eye: “Hooray for the everyday.” Next…
Riot Grrrls in Space
Decades after its incomplete publication, are comics readers finally ready for the groundbreaking feminist space saga Starstruck?
We Will Never Get Away From The Sprawl
Rock and roll survives by reinventing, rather impossibly, over and over, that which isn’t permitted. For one more generation, for one more year, for one…