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In Which We End This Existential Hangover
photo by fibonacci blue Intoxication by SAFY-HALLAN FARAH At the protests in Minnesota, a white homeless man asks me and my friend for exactly nine dollars. I give him five, and my friend coughs up a...
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In Which We Portray A Psychoanalyst With Our Usual Aplomb
Jung at Attention by ALEX CARNEVALE A Dangerous Method dir. David Cronenberg 94 minutes The appeal of a fine Jewish woman, the unshiksa, is well known throughout the centuries. Somehow Jesus avoided...
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In Which Gertrude Stein And Alice B. Toklas Cuddle To Keep Warm
The Fleetness of Stein The letters of Thornton Wilder and Gertrude Stein consist of two genius-level intelligences exchanging information — praise, guilt, happiness, confusion — from deeply different...
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In Which We Contemplate Our Daemons
The Spirit Animal by KARA VANDERBIJL At the shelter, they recommend that you sit on the floor and wait for the right animal to approach you. Ideally, you will connect with an animal that best fits...
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In Which It Is The Only Thing That Matters More Than Beauty
Manhattan in Middle Age by ELIZABETH GUMPORT New York is a city that looks better from a distance. The gap can be temporal – the poverty of youth becomes, in time, one’s golden freedom – or spatial. A...
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In Which We Tribute The Sweetheart
Gift of the Mundane by EMMA BARRIE While You Were Sleeping dir. Jon Turtletaub 103 minutes I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain...
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In Which Violent Delights Abandon Violent Ends
Convincing Nihilism by DAYNA EVANS Carnage dir. Roman Polanski 79 minutes Carnage, Roman Polanski's latest, is seventy-nine minutes, features only four characters, is not a part of the Fast and the...
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In Which We Reject The Ultimate Pronouncement
photo by Molly Dektar Sex and the Ivory Tower by KARLA CORNEJO VILLAVICENCIO Seeing the men in their dirty little tractors spray-paint the lawn green is how you know the tourists are coming. In...
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In Which We Stare Deeply Into The Infinity Pool
Magic Eye by ALEXANDRA MALMED There is a specific and smoldering hue — a kind of fire-side / cardinal / cave-lining vermilion that moves like smoke — that I see when I close my eyes and think about...
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In Which We Flee The Cult Of Our Dreams
She's Just A Picture by ALICE BOLIN Martha Marcy May Marlene dir. Sean Durkin 101 minutes In a scene from Sean Durkin’s psychological drama Martha Marcy May Marlene, charismatic cult leader Patrick...
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In Which We Are Having Champagne With You Fine People
Dolls by DURGA CHEW-BOSE Titanic dir. James Cameron 194 minutes James Cameron’s Titanic immediately prompts a series of awkward poses and bulky pomp: Rose’s half-cupped hand resting shyly on her...
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In Which John Lennon Is Split In Two
Was It Just a Dream? by KATHRYN SANDERS One morning in August of 1973, Yoko Ono walked through her apartment in the Dakota into the office of the Lennons’ 22-year-old personal assistant, May Pang....
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In Which We Ride On God's Great Motorcycle
Love of Leather and Country by DICK CHENEY Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter I always wondered what happened to the British kid in Undeclared. (I assumed porn.) Then I was gchatting with Grover...
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In Which We Make More From The Wallets Than We Do The Register
Walking the Earth by MOLLY O'BRIEN Pulp Fiction dir. Quentin Tarantino 154 minutes It is precisely right that Pulp Fiction begins and ends in a diner. Diners are places where ordinary things happen....
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In Which No One's Inner Plight Resembled His
Dangling Man There is no one here who wholly understands me. To have one person with this understanding, a woman for example, that would be to have a foothold on every side, it would mean to have God....
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In Which We Examine The Static Physicality of Jennifer Westfeldt
Leading Role by ALEXANDRIA SYMONDS Friends with Kids dir. Jennifer Westfeldt 114 minutes At college orientations across the nation, wizened sophomores tell freshmen the same thing: “School, sleep, or...
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In Which We Experience The Pain Of Susan Sontag
photo by annie leibovitz Frantically Impure by ALEX CARNEVALE The problem for me is to transfer a detached intellectual skepticism into a way of harmonious all-around living. -Aldous Huxley Susan...
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In Which We Advance Technology Far Beyond Our Own Capacities
What We Know by MARTIN MULKEEN Sneakers dir. Phil Alden Robinson 126 minutes To provide the formula of this ‘real virtual,’ let me refer to a recent paradoxical statement by none other than Donald...
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In Which Tomorrow Elapses In A Year
Charades by KARA VANDERBIJL There is a stretch of the blue line train route that rushes out of the tunnel after Belmont Ave and balances precariously between the branches of Interstates 90 and 94. The...
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In Which We Experience The Finest Sound Of 2011
The 50 Best Songs of 2011 by DANISH AZIZ From the audio animated gif of "Is This Power" (is that a YTMND?) to the viral video villainy of Kreayshawn/Rebecca Black/Lana Del Rey, 2011 was nothing if not...
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