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- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
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Category Archives: The Arts
A Tiger’s Leap Into History, The Rainbow Reader Part II
Part II of Tessa Laird’s 6-part series on the social history of color takes on orange, from construction to Agent Orange, war to peace, LSD and religion. Continue reading
The Red Thread, The Rainbow Reader Part I
Part I of Tessa Laird’s 6-part series on the social history of color takes in the dark beating heart of red, moving from the personal to the political from Marx to the Middle East. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Alexander Theroux, Antony Gormley, art, ayahuasca, Color, Derek Jarman, goethe, John Berger, Karl Marx, Labour, newton, Wiliam Gass
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The Small Often Vague Things – Kate Newby’s Radically Slight Art
What happens when language fails us? When words are just poor approximations, and they smooth over the weird and wonderful. Meet Kate Newby, whose art can be radically slight, and is failed by trying too hard to describe it. Continue reading
The Last Last: A Memo About Your Most Recent Title
On the subject of movie titles, Tom Gualtieri has the last word. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture, The Arts
Tagged A Moon for the Misbegotten, After Dark My Sweet, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Carrie Fisher, Carson McCullers, Days of Heaven, Eugene O’Neill, Farewell My Lovely, Henry James, Hit Me, I Wake up Screaming, Leave Her to Heaven, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Milan Kundera, Mourning Becomes Electra, Murder My Sweet, Panic in the Streets, Postcards from the Edge, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, something wicked this way comes, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Terrence Malick, The Andromeda Strain, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting., The Damned Don’t Cry, The Day of the Jackal, The French Connection, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Killer Inside Me, The Last Airbender, The Last Days on Mars, The Last Exorcism, The Last King of Scotland, The Last Mimzy, The Last Samurai, The Last Song, The Last Stand, The Last Unicorn, The Mephisto Waltz, The Ministry of Fear, The Parallax View, The Terminal Man, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Wings of the Dove, They Live By Night, Three Days of the Condor, Tomorrow is Forever, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, William Shakespeare, Wishful Drinking, X-Men: The Last Stand
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Game of Thrones: Hurts So Good
Game of Thrones is the ultimate in horror, Tom Gualtieri says. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Popular Culture, The Arts
Tagged A Song of Ice and Fire, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Cersei Lannister, D.B. Weiss, Daenerys Targaryen, David Benioff, Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, HBO, Jack Gleeson, Joffrey Lannister, Lena Headey, Maisie Williams, Mother of Dragons, Ned Stark, Night of the Living Dead, Psycho, Red Wedding, Rory McCann, Sansa Stark, Sean Bean, Sophie Turner, The Exorcist, The Last House on the Left, Theon Greyjoy, Tyrion Lannister
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The Plagiarist is Present: Thoughts on Art, Theft, Shia, Marina and Jay-Z
What do Shia LaBeouf, Marina Abramovic and Jay-Z have in common? Or, Jennifer Kabat asks, when does a copy become a theft? Plus Big Foot and China and abstract painting… Continue reading
