The street art of the pandemic “tell[s] us about our shared political realities, the people we coexist with in social space and the ways in which our stories and fates are tied together.”
Author: rmprouty
Nell Zink: The Committed Spitballer
Andrew Martin has an excellent review of Nell Zink's five novels. I read several reviews of her work before getting … More
The End of Hollywood Hegemony
Richard Brody draws an interesting parallel between the Republican Party and Hollywood studios: At the same time, while directors are … More
Tarantino Cruises into Trouble
Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is said to be Quentin Tarantino’s second to last film, so … More
Worldmaking and Showrunning: The End of Game of Thrones
So I watched the series finale of Game of Thrones on Sunday night. Watching the finale it occurred to me that … More
Films You Should See Before FilmStruck Dies
The online film streaming service FilmStruck is shutting down by the end of November. In the accounts that I’ve read … More
The Theatre as Arcade, the Arcade as Theatre
David Hodgson, an MArch student at the University of Sheffield, has won the AJ Students Award for his design of … More
Reproducibility and the Zara Jacket
FOTUS expresses herself through her outerwear. The messages, though, are ambiguous. She uses a fashion language the rest of us … More
The Last Pages of Philip Roth
It's possible, although I can't confirm it, that Philip Roth passed away at the very moment I was reading the … More
From the Lake to the River: Santiago Calatrava’s Retreat
"Architect of defunct-Chicago Spire to design riverfront sculpture" reads the headline to Blair Kamin's story about the announcement of a Santiago … More
One-Way Street 