When I think about the last year in film, it feels like one that was a study of extremes and surprises. Films seemed to fall into a ‘difficult or at least demanding to watch’ end of the spectrum, like Oppenheimer, or they leaned into a candy-coated, fun end […]
I had too many favorites this year, too many books and comics and movies and TV, and to be honest, I know there’s more I haven’t gotten to that I should have gotten to and would doubtless be on this list if I had, but guys, I guess […]
Angela Englert accidentally fed her mogwai after midnight, so she’s going to be afk this month. In the meantime, please enjoy this look back at MR James’s classic Christmas ghost stories, and with any luck, she’ll be back in the new year. Or something will. Imagine, if you […]
It was such a long time ago and so mundane, but I remember it as if it were a turning point. I was browsing a boutiquey bookstore, blonde pine shelves stuffed with the kinds of books that end up on self-help short lists. Maybe I was just killing […]
Please enjoy this extra-large article in celebration of the spooky season here at the Gutter. It was originally written for a magazine that took longer entries, but things happen. Hopefully it’s like getting a full-sized candy bar from the house with the dad that uses a radio controlled […]
Generational trauma knows no particular race, ethnicity, or personal experience but there is a unique and uniquely bitter flavour when it sets itself on Black lives. In communities where violence can be routine but the lasting effects and the voids it creates are anything but, trauma is often […]
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