Your Brain on Nature: Where the Crawdads Sing Offers Transcendentalism, and a Dash of Dawson’s Creek Mixed With The Notebook

For a long time, the push toward “modernization” (a thin veneer to layer over what remains barbarism) seemed designed to make anyone who still clung [Read More…]

Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” is a Continuation of the Folklore/Evermore Tradition–But Also the Iconic Soundtrack Song Tradition

Here and there, one notices a re-commitment to the film soundtrack that was once a constant. But with the decline of cinema as an “event” [Read More…]

Fresh: The Dating “Meat Market” of Mimi Cave’s Debut Reminds That Abuse of Women Comes As No Surprise… No Matter How “Creatively”

“I didn’t think people still met in real life anymore,” Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) tells her best friend, Mollie (Jonica T. Gibbs), after experiencing just that [Read More…]