Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique
A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk
A Pandemic Archive
Max Alvarez’s interviews record working-class perspectives on the age of COVID
Dream City
Drifting through the city with Modiano and the Situationists
Retro Shock
When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?
The Soul of Man Under Fascism
Reading Gramsci’s prison letters in an age of catastrophe
No Such Thing as a Way Out
Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer portrays humanity at the end of history
Chastening the Past
Indigenous critiques of gender and marriage go further than The Dawn of Everything
A Division of Labor
A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace
Consider the Dinosaur
Toward a philosophy of the asteroid
Our Neighbor From Hell
"May December" asks hard questions about what a community does with its monsters