The film offers a deep commitment to what is real, whether it’s as seemingly ironclad as mathematics or physics or as subjective as one being’s meaning-seeking in the blankness of an endless universe.
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
I wrote this about a year ago when I was planning to leave L.A., and now I’m back so here we are.
In this week’s best-of roundup, we think about Rainer Maria Rilke, the ontology of God, and Italian pop music from the 1970s.
The first time I really knew about NPR was when I was dating someone in college, and they wanted to listen to All Things Considered when we were driving, and I was like, what the fuck is this?
Diana Ross, Simone Weil, and our beloved Scaramucci go head to head in this week’s round-up of reading recommendations.
In a time of goblin mode, we think about C.S. Lewis, Christian apologetics, and Nancy Fraser.
Where Trump and Epstein are concerned, the dog that didn’t bark won’t shut the fuck up.
Ari Aster’s new film reminds us that there’s something actually worse than the present.