Homestead Beyond the Clouds: A Review of Kids of the Black Hole

Paul Cunningham

10.24.17

Evoking textures from likes of Inland Empire and The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, Marty Cain’s Kids of the Black Hole traces a between dreamscape and wasteland. Paul Cunningham reviews.

Artists on Art: Lawrence English on Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu

Robert Kloss

10.23.17

Lawrence English spoke with Robert Kloss about his finding inspirational in the hallucinatory, haunting photography of Masahisa Fukase.

Unpublishable: THIRST

Claire Donato

10.19.17

In the third installment of Unpublishable, Claire Donato explores wine, thirst, feeling, and sickness with her piece, Thirst.

i’m really into breastfeeding my ego lately

Dagmar Mimi Harlow

10.18.17

“all of the kids in the room study theatre and political science and share viral social justice posts on the internet. you think you can have it all.” New work by Dagmar Mimi Harlow.

“I want the emotion to be the center of truth” An Interview with G.O.A.T’s Jim Laczkowski

Meghan Lamb

10.17.17

Chicago musician and podcaster Jim Laczkowski (of a variety of acts from James Eric to G.O.A.T, short for Garden On A Trampoline) in conversation with Meghan Lamb about editing, film, teaching, and his latest album, Silent Light.

The Anti-Natalist and Anti-Colonial Messages in The Girl With All The Gifts

GB Gabbler

10.16.17

“If our post-apocalyptic stories are contingent on propagating the human species, despite ourselves and our abilities, we risk promoting suffering for the sake of suffering.” GB Gabbler explores the anti-natalist and anti-colonial themes in play within the 2016 zombie film The Girl With All The Gifts.

Declaring War on the Universe: Leila Guerriero’s A Simple Story: The Last Malambo

Scott Daughtridge

10.12.17

Leila Guerriero’s A Simple Story: The Last Malambo investigates the passion and devotion of the malambo dancers who dedicate their lives to perform in an annual, life-changing competition in Laborde, Argentina. Scott Daughtridge reviews.

Unpublishable: colon |kōlən|

Vi Khi Nao

10.11.17

“Inside the vortex of her manuscript, her fingernails carve quotation marks on his back. He has not grown accustomed to being used in a sentence that way.” The latest installment of our Unpublishable series, featuring authors’ previously elsewhere-rejected work, comes from the great Vi Khi Nao.

LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream: A Triumphant Call to Reawaken

Sean Lawlor

10.10.17

“We reenter the struggles of limitations and mortality.” Sean Lawlor provides an in-depth review of LCD Soundsystem’s new album American Dream.

Inside The Glass Eye: Michael Kimball & Jeannie Vanasco In Conversation

Michael Kimball

10.09.17

Michael Kimball speaks with Jeannie Vanasco about her latest book out from Tin House, The Glass Eye, with a specific focus on memoir, memory, and not being brave.