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Apocalypse Now (1979)
I have an acquaintance—once a good friend, now an acquaintance; these things happen—who survived an act of political violence. Nearly one hundred people around her died. She was…
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Well. The crudeness of 40 Year-Old Virgin—and be prepared for some extreme crudeness, some of which, two decades later, would for good reason no longer be tolerable—has a…
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The Practice of the Wild, Snyder (1990)
The ideas contained within Practice of the Wild may be the only ideas powerful enough to stave off the looming ecological and political apocalypses of the twenty-first century.…
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Outline, Cusk (2014)
Cusk’s method is creative and straightforward: define the narrator through negative space. Outline is a record of ten conversations in Athens. In each, the narrator Faye is almost…
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Viva Tu, Manu Chao (2024)
With the release of Clandestino in 1998, Manu Chao created a new sound, an original fusion in senses musical (reggae, punk, folk, blues), linguistic (Spanish, French, English, Portuguese,…
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Sinners (2025)
Walking out of Sinners, I thought: human creativity will never be exhausted. Yes, we’re surrounded by a bland artistic landscape shaped by algorithms that attract and desiccate human…
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