Various Artists, Periphery + Progress: UK Electronics 1978-1990, Volumes I + II
Ari Paul’s Ruthless Cosmopolitan
Remembering Lewis Lapham
The death of Lewis Lapham feels like the passing of an era, not simply in the rarified world of America’s literary elite.(...)
American Jews and Israel
The Gaza war has had a massive impact on American Jewry.(...)
Bettie Serveert’s Palomine
As I stumbled into the kitchen to turn on the coffee pot, the world outside the window painfully bright, I suddenly heard the voice of Bettie Serveert’s Carol van Dijk in my head: “Down under lock and key/There’s a brain tag to every secret”. I just couldn’t figure out why.(...)
Growing Older With Pavement
Until the End of the World, Director’s Cut
The director’s cut of Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until the End of the World is both a masterpiece and a remarkably astute commentary on cinema's demise as an artistic category, shattered into fragments by the technological advances he both celebrates and repudiates.(...)
Thomas Mann in Silicon Valley
Why would someone want to read Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain? And why would they finish it?(...)