Film
Narratives of Collapse: ‘Melancholia,’ ‘Take Shelter,’ and ‘Children of Men’
In Fits and Stops: Coming of Age in Anna Rose Holmer’s ‘The Fits’
The World Is Ending and I’m Terrible at My Job: ‘First Reformed’ and ‘Winter Light’
‘Room’ and the Allegory of the Cave
‘Inglourious Basterds’ and the War on Terror
‘Eyes Wide Shut’ and the Paranoid Style in American Pop Culture
‘Midsommar’ and the Problem of Grad School
Everything in Its Right Place: ‘The Shining,’ ‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ and ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
Bergman on Mars: Lars Von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’
‘Clearly, Someone Is Controlling This Here Water’: ‘Rango’ and the Recession
‘Get Out’: The First Great Film of the Trump Era
This Is ‘Us’: Black and Bougie
Watching ’12 Monkeys’ in a Post-9/11 World
Finding Family with the ‘Wilderpeople’
People Like Us: Hollywood Looks at Middle America in ‘August, Osage County’ and ‘Nebraska’
‘The Lego Movie’ and the Gospel of the Creative Class
Reading Piketty at ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Not Sorry to Bother You: Boots Riley’s Insanely Radical Film Bum Rushes Neoliberalism
The Discreet Charm of the Gizmosie
Time, Fate, and the History of the Future in ‘Looper’
God Don’t Make No Junk? Todd Solondz’s ‘Palindromes’
Maps to Nowhere: David Cronenberg Takes on Hollywood, for Better or Worse
What Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’ Was Really About
‘Eternal Sunshine’ and the Science of the Spotless Mind
‘Jurassic World’: Hollywood’s Epic Ode to Woman-Shaming and Mansplaining
The Exquisite Exquisiteness of ‘Carol’
Ingrid Goes Insane: Instagram, Mental Illness, and a New Aesthetic
TV
Written on the Body: ‘Sharp Objects’ Brilliant Portrayal of Trauma
‘Is That the End?’ The Holiday Marathon as a Medium
‘Lunch ON!’: The Greatest TV Show in the World
Video, Terror, and the Politics of Reality TV
Alex P. Keaton and the Dawn of the Adderall Age
Nothing Is Impossible, Except Dinosaurs (and Smart Television)
Fiction
Spinning Through Arab America (and More) with Randa Jarrar
Frankie Fitzgibbons, the Coen Brothers, and the Free Market
Trying to Be Someone in Irish, Working-Class Brooklyn: Alice McDermott’s ‘Someone’
Triumph of the Tragedy Queen: Lana, Sylvia Plath, and the Tragic Feminine
Music
‘No Pakistanis’: The Racial Satire the Beatles Didn’t Want You to Hear
That One Idea, Again: On David Berman
Tramps Like Us Swagger Like Us: M.I.A., the Boss, and the Class Politics of Pop
Is Piracy Killing Independent Music?
ReDigi and the End of Ownership
The Other Freestyle: Recovering 80s Latin Dance Music
Music Piracy Is Older than You Think
Noise, from Dos Passos to Bob Pollard
Ghostface Killah: A Critique of Patriarchal Masculinity
The Gonzo Vision of Lana Del Rey
How the Labor Movement Shot Itself in the Foot: Rock Edition
Bootlegging as Material Culture
The Enduring Mystery of Guided by Voices
A Look Back at ‘A Brilliant Mistake’
OK Go and the Revival of Music Video Culture
Decide Yourself if Radio’s Gonna Stay: A Post-Mortem of R.E.M.
ALEX SAYF CUMMINGS 