To view The Goldfinch through the lens of the traditional novel is to view an object with one eye closed–as an image robbed of its true depth. Discussions of character, plot, authorial biography and style, […]
Keep Fictional Incest Consensual
On last Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones, HBO’s uber popular fantasy series about an uncomfortable chair, the fictional character Jamie Lannister raped his fictional sister, Cersei Lannister, in what was certainly the most controversial […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Editor’s Note: In preparation for this review, I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel twice. I did this neither out of adoration nor frustration, but out of functional necessity. See, I fell asleep around midway through […]
I’m Sorry, Lena Dunham, But It’s Over
My beloved Lena, When we first met (didn’t meet) two years ago, it was unlike any attraction I’d ever experienced in my life. You were everything a Brooklyn bro would want in a partner. You […]
Requested: The Strawberry Criterion: Eleanor & Park
An adult wrote Eleanor & Park to be read by young adults, as S.E. Hilton wrote The Outsiders and Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Like those books, its readership quickly expanded to include adults […]
On Writing, With Carmen Petaccio: At War With The Tropes
I am not a writer and therefore have no business advising anyone on the business of writing. My knowledge of the language and narrative arts is limited. I know the usage difference between “between” and […]
On Hate: Some True Detective Fan Fiction
HBO’s “existentialist cop drama” True Detective didn’t air this past Sunday, presumably due to the mammoth overlap of the Bruno Mars/”existentialist cop drama” demographics. Like most (if not all) of America, I’ve felt lost without the weekly […]
Sardoni Selects: An Exhausting Email Exchange: Part Three
(Editor’s Note: Taylor “T” Sardoni is currently in Russia, which complicates recording a podcast that no one will listen to about movies no one saw. To “simplify” matters, we decided instead to collect an endless […]
Sardoni Selects: An Exhausting Email Exchange: Part Two
(Editor’s Note: Taylor “T” Sardoni is currently in Russia, which complicates recording a podcast that no one will listen to about movies no one saw. To “simplify” matters, we decided instead to collect an endless […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 