Wonder Years: A Review of 926 Years by Kyle Coma-Thompson and Tristan Foster
A few weeks ago I received a circular in the mail for a real estate company. The business had been […]
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The Plat Thickens: A Review of John Trefry’s Plats
In his Meditations, Descartes cites watching people bundled in winter dress at a distance as an example of the gap […]
Opening(s): An Education
When Salvador Dalí was asked about Fred Halstead’s fisting classic L.A. Plays Itself showing at MoMA, he is said to […]
“The sea was more important now than the shore.”
Since starting To the Lighthouse I’d been noticing all kinds of references to subjects and objects, which was prompted chiefly […]
Orientalist Arabesque
Else Lasker-Schüler’s novela The Nights of Tino of Baghdad came to me a couple of weeks ago. It’s free to […]
Peking Man
The best writing sends you down random rabbit holes toward other great writing. Such was the case with a 1940 […]
In Search of Babushka
Babushka’s Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin’s Wartime Camps is an eloquent travel memoir that also manages to do the […]
The Lifeless Lou Reed
Anthony DeCurtis’ Lou Reed: A Life is perhaps the worst nonfiction rock-and-roll book I’ve read, and I’ve read Marianne Faithfull’s […]
End of the Rainbow
“Between you and me is not only a rocket trajectory, but also a life.” When asked about my thoughts regarding […]
