I remember almost ten years ago, the normally sagacious Economist commented on the looming 2008 race.  “The smart […]

Baumbach’s ambitious adaptation of a book by a difficult-to-adapt author comes up short.

The shouts. The demands. The pleas. The cries. They stretched from Tehran to Kurdistan across borders, lands, and waters.

I look for the slightest bit of sapphic tension in every piece of media I interact with. Last […]

The year 2021 ended with some sporting news.  Or, it would seem like news, yet it sounded old.  […]

Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of, quasi-public space that is now disappearing.

Guillermo del Toro does the seemingly impossible by making Pinocchio interesting and heartstring-pulling.

To borrow from our millennial friends, it is very on brand for the Tropics of Meta crew—composed mainly of Gen X Nirvana-loving kids who eat hot Cheetos and drink cold beer—to drop new books in a global pandemic.