Zadie Smith's most recent novel about female friendships, identity, dance, and how we grow out of the...
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
The director angrily replied that the movie needed to be slower at the beginning so bored audience...
Preach it! Who are the great artists that you think the world NEEDS to know about right...
In his recent novel, Salman Rushdie shows how reinventing oneself is damned hard to pull off, even...
Thank goodness art can be reassessed!
Rereading J.G. Ballard's final novel about consumers who turn to absentminded fascism when shopping loses its appeal.
If a great artist dies without ever showing the world their work, does the world have the...
Todd VanDerWerff, a cultural critic and journalist, says (somewhat unsurprisingly) that we need cultural critics and journalists,...
Like many, I prefer to start my days with a jolt of news-induced panic, although I couldn't...
The harrowing memoir of a lost artist from NY reveals how multi-talented David Wojnarowicz was and how...
I can attest that this a truly fascinating subject and book because I've also written a book...
I'd be more optimistic about gentrification in my city if the boosters could fill in the details...
Ole Thorstensen is a master craftsman both in carpentry and prose.
Matthew Stewart's piece on "the 9.9 percent" in the Atlantic is more interesting (and probably easier to...
How a gourmet donut shop became a battleground over gentrification, anarchism, white pride, and everything else.
Flophouses, Scientologists, mysterious strangers, Italian sex films, and more from the second-worst winter of my life.
One of those stories where every word is the right one in the right place...
On a recent book which argues that it's time we stop thinking of the Enlightenment as the...
Hopefully the last (possibly the first) piece you'll ever have to read about gentrification (in Hamilton, Ontario).
Holy fishing Christ! Notes about a recent horrifying/riveting book about a murderous punk rock gang in early...
