Misery Loves Company
In László Krasznahorkai’s latest work, the apocalypse has arrived and we’re living in it.
Orhan Pamuk and The National on Sadness
...This is another version of the promise that feeling bad makes us better people, or that suffering yields learning. In all of these depictions, suffering is a stamp of legitimacy....
There's a small segment of the ████ that is not available to the general public.
...discouraged), made additions and changes—hence the anachronisms and modern spellings, e.g. ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛—but scholars believe that the version known as S4 is posterior to S-68 (K. Stey et al., 2007)....
Mara
...I see you, I will send you home with freshly baked banana bread. And the time after that. But not yet. * I have heard a different version of this...
Footnote Fairy Tale
...version of central planning instead of sticking to the all-too-human model they had initially adopted. Yet I think it’s more interesting to read Red Plenty as a fairy tale about...
Born Under the Tobacco Flower, and Raised Under the Lis
Dreams of a separatist Quebec nation are founded on conservative, racist attachments to bloodline that leftist adherents cannot so quickly disavow
"Healthy" Nationalism?
...namely one in which national pride should be extinguished for good. In high school, when Ginger Spice was wearing a sexy version of the Union Jack and t-shirts with big...
The End of Plastic
...do with that processing/properties relationship. You can 3-D-print a Japanese sword out of steel, with sub-micron precision, but it still won't have the amazing properties of the forged version, which...
The Semiautobiographers
...actor — and by fostering artistic talents in her daughter, she offered Bechdel a means of handling the very problems her tricky version of love had created. This argument concludes...
Batman Occupied
..."American cinema constantly shoots and reshoots a single fundamental film, which is the birth of a nation-civilisation, whose first version was provided by Griffith" (Deleuze, Cinema I, p. 148). We...
Exorcisms in Style
...Style as a showcase, a dazzling display of the many ways to tell a story, the truth is that most of these exercises don’t make very good versions of the...
The Viral Virus
...listicles invite readers to indulge a kind of cyberchondria for attention, a like-driven version of Munchausen syndrome. They propose a bare-minimum, pop-psychology-inflected definition of mental-health conditions, making them lowest-common-denominator enough...
Black Magic,
White Soul
...version of the backup biopic, a genre that includes Standing in the Shadows and this year’s amazing 20 Feet from Stardom, the film makes the mistake of thinking the story...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.17.12
...a non-slideshow version; I feel ethically obligated to link to the place that generated it, but c'mon, Refinery 29! Internet, can we cut the slideshow crap? I thought nobody cared...
The Berkley Horse
...they should have been. Dr. Mipstein: Could you tell me what was the message you were anxious to put out at that time, when you edited this version? James Brodkey:...
COPS Release Screening Party at Spectacle Theater
...Gierucki, the film historian who rediscovered it at a Michigan antiques sale only two years ago, has sent us an advance copy of the full, restored digital version of the...