We're halfway through Marcel Proust's epic The Guermantes Way and Death makes an appearance or two to...
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The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust: On worshipping and serving others in the social world of Volume...
Filled with psychedelic journeys and straight rockers, Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow really is a generational masterpiece.
As we finish Marcel Proust's "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" our hero heads to...
In "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" by Marcel Proust, our hero goes through the...
Let anyone who has never debased themselves for a mismatched love cast the first snark. Finishing the...
Kurt Vile is one of America’s great underrated songwriters and Courtney Barnett has released a few really...
In a sense, it feels doubly-appropriate to reread Proust in middle age because so much of his...
It's hard to imagine a poet having more professional success and personal tragedy than Longfellow, and yet...
Like the recent HBO series, I consumed "Lovecraft Country" ravenously, like I was a dripping protoplasmic monster...
This week I read two novels by Hari Kunzru, a modern magician of storytelling, though the tricks...
This week, If Beale Street Could Talk and Riot Baby, two stories, 46 years apart, about young...
In reality, it was never much of a record shop. But, for many of us, Hammer City...
This great little novel suggests that surrealism might be the only way to write about the strangeness...
Pessoa was that modernist type: a tiny man with a limited social life and an unfathomably rich...
Wrapping up our Bowles-o-rama with three depictions of Paul and Jane Bowles on film, in somewhat mutated...
On Paul Bowles' short story, an alleged murder he committed, and the rediscovery of Sara Driver's 1981...
Jane Bowles only wrote one play. Like her one novel, In The Summer House is a strange...
The Bowles series continues with Paul's 1955 novel about the Moroccan independence movement and the struggles of...
Exploring the Bowles cannon continues with Jane Bowles's more comedic novel about people who also wander halfway...
