Blinks: James Gleick on Arrival and Ted Chiang; Junot Diaz on Octavia Butler

January 11, 2017August 17, 2017 admin

» New York Review of Books: James Gleick reviews Arrival and Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others (preview only for non-subscribers)

» Salon: interview with Junot Díaz: Remembering Octavia Butler: “This country views people like Butler and like Oscar as aliens and treats people like us like we’re from another planet”

Films

Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review by Erin Underwood

October 9, 2024 locusmag 0

Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should

Roundtable

Lisa Goldstein Guest Post–“Traveling in History”

January 13, 2016 admin 0

There’s a passage in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost that gave me pause when I first read it: “For I must tell thee, it will please his grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder, and with his royal finger, thus, dally with my excrement…” Thank goodness for the glossary, which defined “excrement” as meaning “that which grows out (such as hair, nails, feathers).” I bring this up

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