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,” […]
Tag: Death
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 […]
Everyone Who Should Have Died in 2016 But Didn’t, Ranked
2016 was a banner year for death. David Bowie died, as did other less important people. Here are the Top 50 people who deserved to die this year but didn’t, ranked by how much they […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Rogue One
Midway through Rogue One, the first Star Wars anthology film, Darth Vader uses the Force to choke Orson Krennic, Commander of the Galactic Empire. Then, while Force choking Orson Krennic, Darth Vader says, “Don’t choke on your aspirations.” Or […]
Who Will Win?
Later tonight, the United States of America will elect the first female president in its 238-year history, ending the most disheartening and bizarre election cycle in recent memory. The Democrats will likely retake control of […]
Who Won The Third Debate?
Last night, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met in the third and final presidential debate before the general election on November 8th. Donald Trump won. Here’s why: In […]
Positively Blorth Street
Earlier today, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Robert Allen Zimmerman, a folk singer who performs under the name Bob Dylan. The Swedish Academy cited Dylan for “having created new poetic expressions […]
Worst to First: Easy Season One
The latest Netflix streaming series, Easy, from writer-director Joe Swanberg, shifts its focus each episode like a View Master, rotating through eight radically different stories of life in modern Chicago. Like HBO’s High Maintenance, Easy is more a series of […]
The 2016 Fall Movie Preview
From slave epics directed by accused rapists to war epics directed by confirmed anti-Semites, this fall movie season truly has something for everyone. Having spent months locked in contentious deliberations, the BPoFD Editorial Board has finally […]
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