You can’t merely be good when you adapt transcendent material.
This biography might be factually accurate, but it doesn’t rekindle the magic of David Foster Wallace’s presence.
An essay on how villainy is (mostly) something that happens to you.
Most of Leonard Cohen’s classics were written before 1994, but not all his best albums.
Once again, Bret Easton Ellis uses shock and brevity to lure us into a deeper debate.
A film so wild and overt that Nicolas Cage’s performance actually feels nuanced? Yep.
This is not a novel about an invisible observer. This is a novel about the fatality of being seen.
A song is not automatically good because it’s hard to play and a song is not automatically bad or stupid because it’s straightforward.
The dark side of Life Metal might not be as exciting, but it still delivers what only Sunn O))) can.
One of these movies that doesn’t do anything wrong, but doesn’t give you a reason to love it.
Kurt Cobain is somewhat impervious to revisionist history, but he isn’t to the Mandela effect.
A fascinating book about our how our relationship to reality is dictated by culture.