Teju Cole’s ‘Tremor’ Records a Post-COVID Landscape of Art and Rage
If there is any consolation to be had in Teju Cole’s slippery and sinuous Tremor, it’s not found in art or literature but in the music that permeates its pages.
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Gothic Tribes: The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst Explores Pop Music’s Dark Artists
Tolhurst’s goth music history intimately details the mercurial movement, interweaving personal memories and descriptions of the “architects of darkness”.
Personhood and Performance in Alexis Soloski’s ‘Here in the Dark’
Alexis Soloski’s Here in the Dark illuminates the act of performance (no matter the stage) and the notion of stepping into and out of one’s personhood.
Nicolas Cage Biography ‘How Coppola Became Cage’ Focuses on Methods and Cooperation
Zach Schonfeld’s compulsively readable, well-researched book on Nicolas Cage, How Coppola Became Cage, gets to the heart of the unique, multitalented actor.
Spoof of Spooks ‘Slow Horses: Season 3’ Is a Wild Ride
Slow Horses is acutely aware that it’s entertainment. Many scenes play like spoofs of the straight-faced crummy thrillers that pose as prestige cinema.
‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Delivers a Fatal Dose of Poe
Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher delivers a fatal potion of Poe-haunted, nightmarish doom that brings us to our knees before the conqueror worm.
Merged Destinies in Chekhov Adaptation ‘Vanya’
Andrew Scott’s stunning one-man performance in Vanya captures your qualms and hypotheticals and throws them back at you not as a bang but as a whisper.
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Shows Genocide Is (also) a Private Affair
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is another storytelling masterclass and examination of 20th-century American histories of greed and destruction.
John le Carré Gives No Truth, Only Betrayal in ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’
Errol Morris’ The Pigeon Tunnel follows a wily, cynical, yet chipper John le Carré down a rabbit hole of Cold War moral ambiguity.
A Questionable Quartet: Tom Lucas, Research Randy, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edward Stratemeyer
Tom Lucas’ parody Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma’s Half-Eaten Pie of Despair fuses elements of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos into an Edward Stratemeyer world.
The Surreal, Dazzling Desert World of Melissa Broder’s ‘Death Valley’
Melissa Broder’s quality of being “terminally online” lends Death Valley an air of immediacy that grounds its surreal, dazzling moments in poignant emotional realism.
We All Must Reckon with the ‘MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios’
Corporate villainy! Creative tyranny! Dangerous foes and tough allies! MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios blasts the superhero movie universe with the studio’s massive, messy history.
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