Top Ten Movies of 2018 1. Roma 2. First Reformed 3. Suspiria 4. Eighth Grade 5. You Were Never Really Here 6. A Star is Born 7. First Man 8. Hereditary 9. Isle of Dogs […]
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A Review of Lincoln in the Bardo, In The Style of Lincoln in the Bardo
Lovers of George Saunders, your long national nightmare is finally over. After 25 years of publishing his signature brand of off-the-wall short fiction, this master of the short story has delivered unto his fans “Lincoln in the Bardo,” […]
A Preemptive Review of Milo Yiannopoulis’s New Book
(Editor’s Note: Yesterday, Simon & Schuster paid a reported $250,000 to acquire the publishing rights to Dangerous, a book about “free speech” by Milo Yiannopoulis, a mentally ill Lance Bass impersonator. Having already read Mien Kampf twice, I have no […]
2016 Top Ten Lists With Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2016 1. Wiener Dog 2. Elle 3. The VVitch 4. Green Room 5. Hell or High Water 6. The Lobster 7. Loving 8. The Handmaiden 9. Moana 10. Swiss Army Man x Top Ten TV Shows of […]
We Need To Talk About Lionel
Two weeks ago, at The Brisbane Writers Festival, the novelist Lionel Shriver was scheduled to give an address on themes of “community and belonging,” a lustrous irony in light of the speech that the writer […]
2015 Top Ten Lists with Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2015 1. Creed 2. Brooklyn 3. Mad Max: Fury Road 4. Sicario 5. Room 6. Wild Tales 7. The Gift 8. Inside Out 9. It Follows 10. Ex Machina x Top Ten TV […]
The BPoFD 15
These are the fifteen best movies, albums, television shows and books of the century so far, according to the Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators Editorial Board. They are presented below without comment to acknowledge the utter inanity […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Go Set A Watchman
More than half a century separates the publication of Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee’s intriguingly flawed second novel, from the release of To Kill a Mockingbird, its beloved predecessor, in July, 1960, and it will likely take an […]
Stop. Fucking. Buying. Shit. From. Amazon.
The Everything Store, Brad Stone’s sweeping account of Amazon’s rise from prescient concept to pervasive corporation, uses for its epigraph a quote from the company’s eccentric founder, Jeff Bezos. Originally delivered as a part of his […]
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