On Young Nudy’s 2017 Nudyland, Nudy, Pi’erre Bourne, and a handful of other producers take the rapidly calcifying mold of modern trap and stretch and…
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A few years before Nolan’s Inception, Satoshi Kon gave birth to his own dream-infiltration film: Paprika (2006). Laced with vibrant and chaotic scenes of dreamscapes,…
Comments closedThe title of John Irving’s famed novel The World According to Garp came about due to a silly error. When sending his editor, a draft…
Comments closedSpoiler warning for both Crime and Punishment and The Muppets (2011) Dostoevsky criticism 101: explain why you love or hate the epilogue of Crime and…
Comments closed“There ain’t no space program for n*****, no you stuck here n****.” —A Tribe Called Quest (2016) In an age where the richest man alive…
Comments closedMark Twain is known as the “father of American literature” (per Faulkner). Remembered as the great American comic writer, he was a cutting critic of…
Comments closedIt wasn’t many decades ago when commuters in Tokyo subways would have in their hands, in place of a phone, a similarly small-sized book—a bunko-bon.…
Comments closedWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is one of those long and harsh novels assigned in high school that tend to get SparkNoted. Most people get…
Comments closedI’m practicing the piano again. My early musical career was cut short by a traumatic Christmas recital (listening to Let it Snow still makes my…
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