Movie Review: “There Will Be Blood”
“There Will Be Blood,” the latest from Hollywood’s youngest auteur, Paul Thomas Anderson, presents the costly rise of Daniel Plainview ...
Arts & Culture
Funerary fascinates
“Death is a given of the human condition that touches everyone in every age,” reads the introduction to “Korean Funerary ...
NO DEF bends it at Beckham
NO DEF dances to the beat, dances a new beat, a familiar beat, pumps up the beat. The new, all-women ...
Carver reveals complexity of love
Raymond Carver revivalism has become as tiresome as Ernest Hemingway idolatry. Sensitive high school and college creative writers thrive off ...
The Cine-Files
I’m pretty sure that it is statistically impossible to be at Wesleyan this semester and not be taking either (or ...
“Robot Chicken” co-creator dishes on career, Wes memories
It’s a sunny January L.A. afternoon, and the view from a loft office in a television studio on an industrial ...
Prof.’s fiction charms
Authors Paul LaFarge and Kit Reed read from their upcoming and new novels for the first lecture in the Distinguished ...
Record Review: The Magnetic Fields, “Distortion”
Former Hüsker Dü / Sugar frontman Bob Mould was once asked to respond to the allegation that he is “the ...
Inventive Clatter: The determined nihilist
Carla Bozulich may be the most transient performer and sound artist of the last 20 years. This isn’t hard to ...
Internet age redefines plagiarism
Professor Emily Apter of New York University’s French Department offered an intriguing approach to the contentious arena of plagiarism in ...