16
Mar
The Great Fires
Jack Gilbert · ★★★★★
...It is not about the spirit.
The spirit dances, comes and goes. But the soul
is nailed to
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16
Mar
The Brush: Poems
Eliana Hernández-Pachón · ★★★★
La Mata, or The Bush, or The Brush, as translated by Robin Myers (who has provided a
1 min read
16
Mar
Sand
Wolfgang Herrndorf · ★★★
It didn't help that the big, famously inscrutable twist was for some fluke of insight, not
1 min read
16
Mar
Silent Hill
2006 · ★★★
Better than I remembered, which isn't saying as much as it sounds like. The Dark Time sequences
1 min read
16
Mar
Shaolin Soccer
2001 · ★★★★
My son wanted to see this again, which I take as further proof I'm parenting well. The
16
Mar
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
2025 · ★★★★
I stayed with this movie for so many reasons (Sam Rockwell, the improvisational satire on a top scrapping of
26
Jan
A Question About Closeness After Isolation
After COVID, many of us returned to familiar structures in search of stability. This essay follows one question about what tight groups teach us—about belonging, pressure, and who we become together after disruption.
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12
Jan
Why is this newsletter called Long Answers to Made Up Questions?
I believe no matter the discipline – no matter how much work has already been done by others – an artist has to invent their own way of understanding what they're making each time they start something new.
2 min read