Jericho Brown: ‘Write into the Deep Dark Wreck’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I grow green with hope. I’d like to end there.”
How Travel Writing May Look After the Pandemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Although people will always travel and write about their experiences, it remains unclear how the travel writing form will look after Covid-19.
How Covid Is Decimating British Music Journalism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What will England be like with fewer music magazines?
Snapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Feature An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.
So Much More Than Enough By Soraya Roberts Feature My favorite director, Lynn Shelton, died suddenly this month at the age of 54. Did the spirit of indie filmmaking go with her?
Rosanne Cash: Living Between the Notes On Stage By Krista Stevens Highlight “It turns out that when I’m performing, I have only half the available light; the audience has the other half.”
On the Hotness of Not Getting Any By Soraya Roberts Feature Edging, or extending the time leading up to an orgasm, is almost a character of its own in Normal People, Run, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It also has a lot to teach us about sexuality and consent.
Shelved: The Misfits’ 12 Hits From Hell By Tom Maxwell Feature For a bunch of rock ‘n’ rollers creating the horror punk genre, the Misfits sure were sensitive.
What Do We Do Without Live Music? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Those of us who live for musical performances must find other ways to temporarily live without them.
RIP Little Richard, the ‘Self-Proclaimed King and Queen of Rock & Roll’ By Krista Stevens Highlight There are miracles everywhere if you know where to look. And know how to listen: A wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom!
This Week in Books: Several Nihilistic Frenchmen By Dana Snitzky Commentary This week critics have looked to Huysmans, Camus and Jean-Philippe Toussaint for COVID-era inspiration.
The Function and Language of Ancient Sexual Texts By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A fascinating look at so-called obscenity, then and now.
What Happens If I Don’t Like Fiona Apple? By Soraya Roberts Feature It seems like everyone in the world loves “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” So why don’t I? On the isolation of disconnection.
Japan: A Longform Reading List of Longform Writing By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Armchair travel is more important than ever, now that pandemic has forced us to stay indoors. Reading can take you across the ocean.
Where ‘Strangers Whisper Secrets in Your Ear’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “Is there anyone who doesn’t sometimes imagine an audience for even the most unremarkable moments of her life?”
This Week In Books: I Bought Some Books By Dana Snitzky Reading List Am I ghoul for buying all these plague books?
Secret Museums By B. Pietras Feature Struggling with the world’s, and his own, homophobia, one queer young man searches for intimacy in the world of internet porn.
Funk Lessons in Sonic Solitude By Longreads Feature “Joi’s recorded performances embodied all the funkiness my little soul had been waiting for.”
How Margaret Atwood is Passing Time During the Pandemic By Krista Stevens Highlight “I present some of my more bizarre self-isolation activities. You can do some of them at home. Though perhaps you won’t wish to.”
This Week In Books: The New Lord and Lady of the Apartment By Dana Snitzky Commentary “Infamously … Goethe dismissed the younger writer as diseased.”
“All The Best”: Rest Easy, John Prine By Krista Stevens Highlight I wish you love / And happiness / I guess I wish you / All the best
This Week in Books: A B-Movie Storytelling Moment By Dana Snitzky Commentary Give me a Bolaño novel that starts with a guy walking into a bar, and then another guy starts telling him a story, and the rest of that novel is just the second guy telling that story.
Photographing the Collective Experience of Self-Isolation By Krista Stevens Highlight “The photographer hopes his brief visits…can help break the oppressive monotony of a seemingly endless day, stretching on without distractions from the outside world.”
This Week in Books: An Everlasting Meal By Dana Snitzky Commentary The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.
We’re Not All in This Together By Soraya Roberts Feature When the only way to be a real community is to be apart, it quickly becomes obvious who is out for themselves.
On Dolly Parton and Being Seen By Krista Stevens Highlight “Perhaps I’m taking this too personally, but the idea of being inexplicably drawn to a phenomenon that is ultimately destructive is, well, heartbreaking and uncomfortably relatable.”
Shout Out to Myspace By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The site that revolutionized how people released and listened to music has died multiple deaths since its 2003 debut, but it finally gets the eulogy it deserves.
The Messy Making of a Nearly Perfect Hip-Hop Album By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Music as original as Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s sounds evergreen, but originality came with a high personal cost for its maker.
“The Beauty of the Moments that Pass Each Day” By Krista Stevens Highlight “Building a relationship is important, because it makes the pictures secondary.”
“Leave Us to Our Peace”: A Pact Made in Love By Krista Stevens Highlight “The way we die is changing. So, too, is the way we think about dying — and about the opportunity, even the right, to die at a time and place of our choosing.”
