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A Review of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine’s National Book Award-winning Citizen: An American Lyric is a testament to how far we have to go as a nation to move past the racism… Read more “A Review of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine”

“I grew up the son of a preacher without a church, and my childhood was spent in his quest to find one. Our puke-yellow camper van dumped… Read more “Lost Faith and the Vocabulary of Belief: A Reflective Review of Marilynne Robinson’s Lila”

Few modern directors enjoy more reverential respect than Martin Scorcese. Across a five decade career he has managed to create films that span the worlds of the arthouse… Read more “God’s Lonely Man: A Look at Tom Shone’s Martin Scorcese: A Retrospective”

it sounds better than it is, this business of surviving, making it through the wrong place at the wrong time and living to tell. – from the… Read more “A Review of Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb”

“Going to the movies has always been, as far back as I can remember, both an event and a way of life. … You go to the… Read more “A Review of Tara Ison’s Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies”

I want to sit down for coffee with Patricia Lockwood. No, that’s not true. I want to throw back a few shots of whiskey with Patricia Lockwood,… Read more “Perfect Little Mouthfuls: Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood”

And faceless, I went to the car, pronounced: “The book will be called Rome.” Men in the seats Thinking I was odd or silly But I could still… Read more “Tunneling Towards a Ferocity: A Review of Rome by Dorothea Lasky”

Sarah Dowling’s Down is a book that draws us in with the intentional failure of its imagined voice. Not the failure of the book, mind you, but… Read more “What Can Make This Matter: Down by Sarah Dowling”

Edward Hirsch’s newest book Gabriel: A Poem is unlike any other book of poetry in recent memory. Hirsch has been an established and celebrated poet and critic for… Read more “A Review of Gabriel: A Poem by Edward Hirsch”

Few ideas ignite the cinephilic mind more than that of the lost film. The romance of what might have been, the tragedy of beauty discarded, the buried… Read more “A Review of Missing Reels by Farran Smith Nehme”