Audiobook Review: Star Wars YA Title Asks Millennium Falcon Smugglers to Pay...
In the Disney era at Lucasfilm, the Millennium Falcon has become like the family car of the Star Wars franchise. Han gets it when he needs it for work, but sometimes Lando has it and sometimes Rey...
View ArticleBook Review: Cara Robertson’s “The Trial of Lizzie Borden” Gets (Close) to...
Is it telling that America’s longest-standing true crime fascination doesn’t have a definitive account? For all the books and movies that have been made about the 1892 murders of two respectable elder...
View ArticleBook Review: Miriam Toews’s “Women Talking” Explores an Uneasy Resilience
In a hayloft, several women gather, with only a single man present to take notes on their urgent conversation. The subject of discussion: what to do about their situation as residents of a remote...
View ArticleBook Review: Juliet Escoria’s “Juliet the Maniac” is a Window Into a Warped...
Alt lit is dead. That was the consensus in some corners of the internet a few years ago, when a series of sexual misconduct allegations led to the exile of multiple prominent male figures of the...
View ArticleWalker Art Center Offers “Five Ways In” To Its Collection
The title of the Walker Art Center’s new show is Five Ways In — as in, five ways to approach the museum’s bracing collection of path-breaking contemporary art. How accessible is it? Let me put it this...
View ArticleBook Review: David Lynch’s Visual Art Gets a Dark Spotlight In “Someone Is In...
You probably don’t think of David Lynch as a painter, and that is WRONG WRONG WRONG. Such is the message of the weirdly defensive essays that open Someone Is In My House, a new coffee-table volume of...
View ArticleThe Five Millionth Sally Rooney Book Review To Use the Word “Millennial”
BuzzFeed says Sally Rooney “really captures millennial life.” The New Yorker cites her reputation as “the first great millennial novelist,” Bookforum notes her status as the “first great millennial...
View ArticleMovie Review: “House of Gucci” Is Gloriously Gaudy
There’s a moment early in House of Gucci when you realize that all those characters speaking in outrageous Italian accents are actually in Italy. There could hardly be a clearer signal: this is one of...
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New Harry Potter Board Games…You Know, For Kids!
As of last year, there are human beings of U.S. drinking age who have never existed in a world without Harry Potter. My six-year-old nephew hasn’t even lived in a world where all the Harry Potter...
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11 Posts the Tumblr Porn Police Came At Us For
Well, yeah, Adam’s schlong is just hanging right out there in our post on Christianity-themed knock knock jokes. Maybe the couple on the cover of this Washed Out album aren’t actually having sex,...
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