Still Stranger than Fiction: An Interview with Chuck Palahniuk
How, in this era of cancel culture, does the idiosyncratic and transgressive Chuck Palahniuk keep publishing? On this and his new work “People, Places, Things”.
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When You Speak to Your Muse, Does It Answer? It Does in ‘Boss Broad’
Wild rebellion and reckless combat are increasingly less valued than ethical wit and spiritual sustenance in Megan Volpert's entertaining and insightful Boss Broad.
From Paris, with Poetry: On Henri Cole’s ‘Orphic Paris’
Henri Cole's Orphic Paris mines the city of light to illuminate the ends of his art.
Getting Lost in Thought with David Sedaris
Calypso uses a wandering style of storytelling to conjure a sense of Sedaris traveling through his own thoughts, getting lost on particular charming tangents before coming back to what he ultimately wants you to take away.
George A. Romero’s ‘Martin’: On Lasting Intimacy with a Cult Cinema Vampire
Why do horror fans take Romero's 1978 indie masterpiece so personally? A close look at the film, its novelization, its soundtrack, the Soft Cell pop song it inspired, and other pop culture obsessions.
Unrealistic Colors and Naturalistic Philosophies in Jean Renoir’s ‘The River’
In The River, Renoir transcends his own attractive colors, stumbling into a “realistic” philosophy of nature that the portraiture of color so often forbids.