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Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker Cleans Out His Closet with Memoir ‘Good Pop, Bad Pop’

Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker Cleans Out His Closet with Memoir ‘Good Pop, Bad Pop’

Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker rummages through his cluttered closet to tell the story of his life via the objects he finds in his fascinating memoir, Good Pop, Bad Pop.

Pro-Choice ‘The Janes’ Documents the Women Who Worked for Safe Abortions

Pro-Choice ‘The Janes’ Documents the Women Who Worked for Safe Abortions

An important film to see as Roe v. Wade is under threat, the ‘The Janes’ shows the danger that women on the frontlines of safe abortions were up against.

The Best Film and Television of 2021

The Best Film and Television of 2021

If you missed any of these films and television shows from 2021 you’ll want to seek them out and bask for a while in their light – or follow their darkness.

Peter Weiss and Further Reflections of a Political Kind

Peter Weiss and Further Reflections of a Political Kind

Vol. II of Peter Weiss’ novel and documentary history, The Aesthetics of Resistance, laments struggles lost as Nazism and WWII take hold.

Peter Weiss and Political Reflections of a Novel Kind

Peter Weiss and Political Reflections of a Novel Kind

Peter Weiss’ ‘The Aesthetics of Resistance, Vol I’ is a post-mortem on the failure to prevent Nazism and an exploration of how art can be a form of resistance.

Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville by David Freeland

Alice Munro’s ‘The View from Castle Rock’ Challenges Fussing over Facts

9 to 5: The Sexist, Egotistical, Lying, Hypocritical Bigot Edition (1980)

The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry: 20th Century Welsh Poetry

François Ozon’s Sensibility vs the Sensual Pleasures in ‘8 Women’