In Garry Trudeau’s animated short film, A Doonesbury Special, the stoner ex-hippie Zonker announces to his group of […]
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Speculative fiction remains one of my favorite descriptive terms for genre fiction. Attributed to sci-fi legend Robert Heinlein […]
The year is 1979. America is awash in a sea of polyester, flared trousers, and long hair, bouncing […]
In the summer of 1977 a movie hit the multiplexes, twin cinemas, and dwindling drive-ins of America like […]
We got this piece seven months ago and shelved it because, at the time, it didn’t seem like […]
Our end-of-last-year series rolls on with a look at the sights and sounds of 2016. In this case, […]
Historian and legal expert Ariela J. Gross opens her 2008 work What Blood Won’t Tell with details from […]
When I heard that Paul Thomas Anderson would be translating a Thomas Pynchon novel for the the screen, […]