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January 11, 2019
Credit in the Straight World: I watch “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a straightforward rise-and-fall tale. Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), a...
November 2018
November 26, 2018
I review Michelle Tea’s “Against Memoir”
at The Week: Any book titled Against Memoir will inevitably be a descent into the...
January 2018
January 17, 2018
Only Loved at Night: Short movie reviews + one book
Scarface: Slinky, sleazy Paul Muni. I guess it's ok to totally glamorize murder if you...
January 09, 2018
“Slapstick Tragedy”: I review “I, Tonya”
at First Things. And I did an extended twitter thread of notes, outtakes, and skating...
January 07, 2018
That Great Drowned Atlantis, The ’90s
I've been doing a thing where I bring various periods of my life, and the...
August 2017
August 14, 2017
Pretty Girls Make Graves: Short movie and book reviews
Films first. Poltergeist: The last movie I saw before my (successful, thank you St Lucy)...
February 2017
February 23, 2017
Taking the Rough with the Smooch: Movie notes
A couple quick hits before we move to our main event, viz. a trip back...
August 2016
August 11, 2016
A Long Summer: Movie notes
In the order I saw them. Saving the best for last. Hush: Home-invasion horror centering...
July 2016
July 29, 2016
Kids Under 12 Drink Free: I review the “AbFab” movie & “Bojack Horseman”
together! The third season of Bojack Horseman arrived the same day the long-awaited Absolutely Fabulous:...
July 25, 2016
I Revisit Saul Bellow’s “Ravelstein,” A 2000 Novel About Love and Tenderness–And the Coming Crackup of the GOP
here you go: Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the last years of philosopher-provocateur...
June 2016
June 24, 2016
The Soul Searchers: Four Moral Histories of Washington, DC
In preparation for this exhibit at the Anacostia Museum I've been reading about my hometown's...
May 2016
May 21, 2016
Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Corrections and Overcorrections
"The Myth that Fewer People Are Going to Prison": John Pfaff, a legal scholar at...
May 20, 2016
Bad Catholics, Anxious Christians
A very small thought about this review of several "young evangelical memoirs." So first, there's...
April 2016
April 05, 2016
Virginia’s Drunk on Power, Detroit Is Getting Some Sunshine, And Three More Links from a Criminal Justice System
In the continuing saga of am I the only person who remembers the '90s, seriously...
February 2016
February 13, 2016
Kissing Covens: I watch “The Sisterhood of Night”
Despite the title, spooky cover, and synopsis (ARE OUR TEENS IN A WITCH SEX CULT?...
January 2016
January 15, 2016
“Exterminatrix”: I review Sarah Schulman’s “Rat Bohemia”
for AmCon: I spent last weekend at the Gay Christian Network Conference in Houston, and...
December 2015
December 06, 2015
In the Year of the Dragon: Ross Douthat Writes About Guns
so I don't have to. He makes his point in his characteristically careful, suggestive style,...
September 2015
September 18, 2015
“Obedience School”: Brian Dewan’s Utter Brilliance
a window into my id? via Simone R, back in 1993. Oh those bygone days!
September 06, 2015
Ian MacKaye (From an Interview I Haven’t Read)
What about legacy. Does that matter to you? No. I already have a legacy and...
August 2015
August 21, 2015
Girls Like Violence: Short Movie Reviews
First up, a couple horror flicks; then a WWII documentary covertly filmed behind Fascist lines...
June 2015
June 12, 2015
Toller Cranston Skates for Mexico: A Fever Dream
One reason I loved the Mountain Goats' new album Beat the Champ so much is...
April 2015
April 14, 2015
“Choose to Stay” (Or, Virtute the Cat Contemplates Her City)
One reason I love the Weakerthans is that their songs are set in their hometown....
February 2015
February 21, 2015
Success Perm: “Fresh Off the Boat”
This is just a quick Saturdayish post to say that ABC's new sitcom "Fresh Off...
December 2014
December 08, 2014
Small Screens: Several Very Short Movie Reviews
What I've been watching. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Actually pretty fun, once you...
November 2014
November 23, 2014
The Mayor-for-Life, At Least
Marion Barry, RIP. Look, Barry started out as a civil-rights organizer throwing block parties in...
June 2014
June 05, 2014
Before #yesallwomen, There Was “The Gift of Fear”: Me at AmCon
w/criticism, but you should read the book: I had the vertiginous experience of reading Gavin...
May 2014
May 30, 2014
“Way Too Early to Declare Victory in War Against Mass Incarceration”
from the Brennan Center, possibly via Radley Balko or PrisonCulture: It is far too early,...
February 2014
February 14, 2014
Goldfinch and Lyre Bird
I just re-read The Liar, Stephen Fry's 1991 debut novel, and it's still the funniest...
July 2012
July 18, 2012
Bikini Kill lives again!
sort of.
June 2012
June 22, 2012
Well I don’t even know her…
Some thoughts about Monster, the based-on-a-true-story in which Charlize Theron plays Aileen Wuornos, the so-called...
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