Octavia Butler's 1993 novel Parable of the Sower posits a future dystopia that's located just right next...
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Like many classic myths, the epic third season of Twin Peaks seems to say, if the pain...
30 years later, I watched Twin Peaks Season 1 for the first time and found it quite...
It's hard to know quite how to read Lucia, an imaginative and erudite depiction of a woman's...
Naturally, Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison is an unfinished work. All things living are unfinished. But what’s there...
François-René de Chateaubriand tried to find his way in the moments after the old world had ceased...
Julie Dash's luminous Daughters of the Dust plays like a series of rituals guiding its Gullah characters...
Wild Seed is often called a science-fiction novel, with the sciences being biology and genetics, and really...
Richard Wright's "lost" 1942 novel of guilt, exile, and spiritual initiation has been fortuitously pulled up from...
Fellini's heartbreaking archetypal story of how, in life, Experience comes to kick the snot out of Innocence....
In Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece the sense of vertigo is inspired by the infinite space between Self and...
Persona by Ingmar Bergman places two women in a cottage to find out what happens when we...
Sturgill Simpson's Cuttin' Grass Vol 2 is not a double-LP like Vol 1, and it has been...
Hanif Abdurraqib's song of praise never elides Black pain or the reality of racism; but centers and...
We've reached the final volume of "In Search of Lost Time" and, finally, our hero has realized...
There are many readers for whom “The Fugitive” is their favorite volume because it’s a psychologically rich...
I'm feeling a bit under the weather this week, so I think I will let Ralph Fiennes...
The Prisoner by Marcel Proust's depiction of doomed and obsessive sexual jealousy is not nearly as bleak...
Proust is showing us the world that was in terminal decline by the first world war and...
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust: In which the love that dare not speak its name finally...
