Fierce Grace: Review of Ronaldo V. Wilson’s Farther Traveler
Angel Dominguez05.12.16
Angel Dominguez reviews Farther Traveler by Ronaldo V. Wilson: “You read Ronaldo V. Wilson’s Farther Traveler, and your life has to change.”
Undoing the Industry: Death Grips’ Bottomless Pit
Benoit Lelièvre05.10.16
On their latest album, Bottomless Pit, Death Grips prove again why they are vital listening in an era of hyper-marketed sounds. Benoit Lelièvre reviews.
Album Roundup: March 2016
Scott Creney04.26.16
Scott Creney’s a parent to a small child and still listens to more music than most of us. His roundup of the highlights and lowlights of last month’s releases includes new sounds by Santigold, DIIV, Porches, Teen, and more.
The Dissonance in Terence Malick’s Knight of Cups
Philip Dinolfo04.18.16
Philip Dinolfo weighs the highs and lows of Terence Malick’s flawed vision of L.A. in his latest film Knight of Cups.
Shades of Bruise: A Review of Dawn Lundy Martin’s Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
Paul Cunningham04.14.16
Dawn Lundy Martin’s assemblage of bodies, debris, and mechanisms of control might be one of the most important (and most overlooked) books of last year. Paul Cunningham reviews.
Privacy Given Freely: A Review of Shannon Burns’s Oosh Boosh
Carolyn DeCarlo04.07.16
What is the Oosh Boosh? What does it want? Carolyn DeCarlo reviews Shannon Burns’s debut collection, out now from 421 Atlanta.
Ideal Home Noise (6): Rodereda, Henson, Haneke
Jeff Jackson04.05.16
Jeff Jackson brings us his latest round up of wild media for your mind. This month, he includes the absurd writings of Merce Rodereda, Bill Henson’s dreamy photographs, and a look at Criterion’s rerelease of Haneke’s Code Unknown.
Reclaim What Is Ours: Sandra Simonds’s Steal It Back
Gina Myers03.24.16
Sandra Simonds melds domestic discontent with the unpredictable in her new collection, Steal It Back. Gina Myers reviews.
Album Roundup: February 2016
Scott Creney03.22.16
Scott Creney’s Music Roundup is your binary guide to starting the new year like you ended the last one: listening for the better, truer mess, including looks at recent releases by Savages, Rihanna, Future, and David Bowie.
What Are We Violence: Jennifer MacKenzie’s My Not-My Soldier
Kent Shaw03.17.16
Kent Shaw moves through the overwhelm of violence–and the questions of responsibility–in Jennifer MacKenzie’s My Not-My Soldier.