September 2017. Socorro County, New Mexico — It moved slowly, with a grinding of motors and gears, its focus drifting across a brilliant blue September sky. It took several minutes, and I stood transfixed by something that must, to so many, seem so mundane. When it finally clicked […]
My Modern Met has a diagram by Lucy Bellwood describing the meanings of Western nautical tattoos. (See Bellwood’s “100 Demon Dialogues” here).
Friend of the Gutter Evan Munday is drawing a Canadian every day for his #365Canadians project. He’s interviewed about the project by the CBC. “You’re probably familiar with Rick Hansen, Buffy Sainte-Marie and David Cronenberg, but do you know Chan Hon Goh, Del Lord and Lori Fung? Author, cartoonist and […]
At the Guardian, Sarah Churchwell writes about fiction and fascism. “These parallels between fictional pasts and our political present may seem eerie: they aren’t. There is nothing surprising about people trying to replicate the oldest models of power.”
The Nib has Turkish cartoonist Felat Delibalta’s comic, “So You’re Going Through A Coup.”
“Looking for film noir in India is to miss the point of Indian cinema altogether.”–Lalitha Gopalan, “Bombay Noir,” A Companion to Film Noir. (Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013). There’s a lot about Calcutta—the center of the Bengali film industry, metropolitan capital of the state of West Bengal, […]
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