Family Bonding, Poverty and Vagrancy in Children’s Literature
Three European classics, Seacrow Island, An Episode of Sparrows and Krabat and the Sorcerer’s Mill explore difficult topics with profundity and sincerity.
Imran Khan
Woman: Happy Freedom
Happy Freedom may be the only album to make you think of Marvin Gaye and Kraftwerk at the same time.
Black Milk Gives ‘Em ‘Hell’
Much of If There's a Hell Below's themes relay anxieties buried deep, manifested as sound when they are unearthed.
Digging the Earth: Michael J. Sheehy on Music, Politics and Personal History
Miraculous Mule introduces politics into their poisonous melodrama on their latest album and frontman Michael J. Sheehy shares his greatest musical inspirations.
Andrzej Żuławski Finds Love and Family in the ‘Cosmos’
At its heart, Cosmos is a very human story born from rudiments both otherworldly and oneiric.
Walerian Borowczyk Explores the Obsessive Quest in ‘Story of Sin’
In Story of Sin, there's a realism articulated through a psychological terror, an anxiety ramped up to the wild-eyed surveying of struggle and compromise.
Callback to the Future: Maestro Gamin on the Miracles and Medicines of His Latest EP
Maestro Gamin’s latest venture with producer Books One, Miracle Work Medicine, sees a return to Daisy Age hip-hop.
Parochial Hierarchy in Walerian Borowczyk’s ‘Goto, Isle of Love’
Shot in lustrous black and white, Borowczyk’s film straddles an impossible line between grim drama and ramshackle fantasy.
New York Minute, Hollywood Moment: An Interview with Actor David Labiosa
Veteran of the acting business for 40 years, David Labiosa relates a wealth of memories about his work as a Hispanic in the Hollywood industry.
On Georgette Heyer’s Debonair, Polished Butchery
Heyer perfected the art of banter and her social engagements on the page often read like David Campton and Edward Albee plays -- sans the existential subversions.
Smudge and Jury: The Punk-Noir Pulp of ‘I, The Jury’
With all the roughneck charm of a '40s-era pulp novel and much style to spare, I, The Jury is a good, popcorn-filling yarn.
Living the Blues in ‘Chilly Scenes of Winter’
A sensitively framed composition of human nature, Chilly Scenes of Winter reveals the desires and neuroses that drive men to the brink.