Caitlin Johnstone Sep 15, 2025 Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): “Hacks” costar Hannah Einbinder said “Free Palestine” during her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress at the Emmys on Sunday. Questioned by the press […]
My new book allowed me to step over the culture wars and address the future Alexander Adams Sep 09, 2025 With pleasure and trepidation, I introduce you to my new book How to Start a Dissident Art Movement. As part of the re-thinking of the core principles I […]
“The Lexicon of Comicana is a classic that belongs on every cartoonist’s shelf!” —Raina Telgemeier THE LEXICON OF COMICANA Mort Walker Foreword by Chris Ware Edited by Brian Walker In a cartoon, what do you call the sweat drops shooting off a character’s head? Those are “Plewds.” What […]
Walkabout track 03. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_walk… Find more of Julia Ecklar’s excellent music at: https://www.prometheus-music.com/ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— [book: Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card] Lyrics: Too evil; Too gentle. Breed again and give them what they need. You’re […]
Sponsored by Classical Pursuits David Levine On the cover of the third issue of The New York Review of Books (September 26, 1963), right in the middle of Susan Sontag’s assessment of the first volume of Albert Camus’s Notebooks, sits a fellow with a large nose. The man is not Camus, but he […]
NYRSeminars presents: “The Political Novel” with Edwin Frank, Editor of New York Review Books We live in a political world, per Bob Dylan, and the song suggests that is not such a good thing. The modern novel grew up alongside the modern political world, and has kept a fascinated […]
Sponsored by Cambridge University Press Title page from a 1676 edition of Plutarch’s second-century The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans “Biographer, know thyself!” So Hermione Lee condensed the argument of one of several books about the genre of biography that she reviewed for us in 2001. “The […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now Eurosiberia Podcast #67: Star Trek from the Right To boldly follow the vibe shift Arktos Journal, Constantin von Hoffmeister, and Phisto Sobanii Aug 12 READ IN APP Phisto Sobanii and Constantin von Hoffmeister discuss Star Trek, neo-paganism, multipolarity, the […]
Martin Filler The Apprentice’s Sorcerer Condé Nast’s editors shone brightest in its premillennial heyday, but the media company’s opaque proprietor, S. I. Newhouse Jr., made his most consequential discovery in Donald Trump. James Quandt An Impulsive Master Jacques Rozier’s films are free-wheeling and intermittently brilliant, but his […]
Troy Southgate Aug 05, 2025 JUST ARRIVED !! Wulf Ingessunu’s THE HOODED MAN MYSTERIES: A NEW ORDER is now available to order. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. Our PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and […]
Gabriel Winslow-Yost The Revolution Will Not Be Star Wars What Andor depicts most clearly is what its kind of storytelling can’t say. Tariq Mir Kashmir: Death and the River “The cease-fire [between India and Pakistan] has held so far, but peace may well be elusive. Water will be one of […]
View in browser|nytimes.com July 24, 2025 BREAKING NEWS WWE/WWE, via Getty Images Hulk Hogan, Shirt-Shredding Superstar of Pro Wrestling, Dies at 71 The charismatic wrestler, born Terry Gene Bollea, helped build an entertainment on the margins into a cultural behemoth. Read more If you received this newsletter from […]
View in browser|nytimes.com July 22, 2025 BREAKING NEWS Chad Batka for The New York Times Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76 As the lead singer of Black Sabbath, he helped invent heavy metal. On “The Osbournes,” he presented a comedic counterpoint to […]
View in browser The Dishcast with Andrew Sull… Thomas Mallon On Literature A… 0:00 1:38:16 Listen now Thomas Mallon On Literature And AIDS His new collection of diary entries is an emotional tour of NYC in the ’80s and ’90s. Andrew Sullivan Jul 18 ∙ […]
William Blake, John Milton (1800–1803); Manchester Art Gallery In the Review’s June 9, 1966, issue, the literary critic Christopher Ricks wrote that John Milton is “the most controversial poet in English.” Since that early issue, considerations of Milton have found their way into our pages like a serpent into a garden, […]
I understand you call yourself a writer. Rachel Haywire Jul 17 READ IN APP Dear young influencer, I understand you call yourself a writer. You see life as a journey and you’ve cast yourself as the protagonist nobody noticed. A character so immersed in your own narrative you […]
by Joakim Andersen Arktos Journal Jul 17, 2025 Joakim Andersen reflects on Family Guy as a Gen X cultural product, contrasting it with The Simpsons, and explores its dark humor, nihilism, and critique of post-bourgeois society, while examining how the show handled themes of gender, race, and class, […]
Week XXVIII, MMXXV Brought to you by Codecademy Recently, in The Signal: What does Germany’s new military expansion mean for Europe? Liana Fix on Berlin’s mission to build the Continent’s most powerful army. Today: Why are studios releasing so few original new films? Andrew deWaard on how movie […]
The first fantastical satire of COVID ever is… a dystopian comedy novel? Rachel Haywire Jul 03, 2025 Who is Johnson Riggs? For the uninitiated, he’s a philosopher-king in exile disguised as a novelist. If you’re been around these parts, you’ve probably heard about his dystopian fantasy book Pandemonia. […]
Troy Southgate Jul 04, 2025 AFTER working on this album for so many years with my great friends and collaborators, Mich Sovijarvi-Spape and Miklós Hoffer, I am so happy to finally see it in the flesh and to be able to share the music with those of you […]
WEB VERSION June 30, 2025 Cubicles in the Sky Norman Foster is one of the world’s quintessential starchitects, and his reputation, for better and worse, has been defined by his work for corporate clients. He has designed some of the most iconic office buildings and corporate campuses of […]
Professor Orlando Reade joins Chris Hedges to discuss his book, “What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost,” to examine the epic poem’s influence in the four centuries since its publication on revolutionary thinkers, and uses the poem to analyze the moral grey area that […]
Towards a literature that lives, acts, and builds in the shadow of sacrifice. Chōkōdō Shujin May 29, 2025 Chōkōdō Shujin invokes the kamikaze’s poetic soul to call for a new literature of action, where myth and youth fuse into cultural renewal. An inner surge of energy, a spirit […]
Interviewing one of Fiume’s legendary artists Rachel Haywire May 27, 2025 You may have seen the art of Skinless Frank before. Now he’s joined the Fiume Gallery and we’ve taken the time to sit down to interview him. On May 10th I threw a launch party for my […]
WEB VERSION May 19, 2025 A World Turned Upside Down Over a career that spanned more than 60 years, Christopher Hill became one of the leading interpreters of the English Revolution and British life and politics in the 17th century. His two masterpieces on the subject, The English […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now The Smartening Up of Music – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report May 19 READ IN APP SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/the-smartening-up-of-music-solutionswatch/ Anyone who listens to the Top 10 on Spotify knows all too well just how far music has been […]
The archetypes of criminal and artist are intertwined. Bravery, recklessness and egotism drive hero-villains, who fascinate us and embody the man-of-action. Alexander Adams May 17, 2025 Supernatural master criminal Fantomas, from the 1912 film In my novel The Naked Spur, we encounter a protagonist who is freeing himself […]
Sponsored by Harvard University Press Sanford Schwartz once wrote in The New York Review that when David Salle puts down his brush and picks up his pen to write art criticism, he does so with the same “seemingly out-of-nowhere assurance” with which he arrived on the painting scene in the late […]
Posted on May 10, 2025 by winter oak by Jordan Henderson First we need to equip ourselves with a philosophical razor, Treebeard’s Razor. Treebeard is an Ent, a tree man character from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Treebeard doesn’t like AI art, he thinks it’s […]
Trump’s War on Foreign Films Plus: Alcatraz reopening, Bukele corruption scandal, assisted suicide, and more… LIZ WOLFE Foreign films fucked: Another week, another round of tariffs! Yesterday, President Donald Trump said he would be imposing 100 percent tariffs on all foreign films. “WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!” […]
WEB VERSION May 5, 2025 Impossible to Imagine Toward the end of his life, in a fit of self-doubt and fears of being a “has-been,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his editor, Max Perkins, to ask if his Jazz Age masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, would be forgotten in […]
Sponsored by Reaktion Books Jed Perl A Century of Surrealism One hundred years after André Breton launched the Surrealist movement, we’re still trying to make sense of its aims and effects. David Cole From Evasion to Silence As the courts resist his deportation orders, Trump has responded with […]
Hello my dear friends! Oh my goodness, it feels like forever since I’ve written on here! My whole website has strayed out of time and space for a few weeks, as I have been doing a lot of rebirthing and reinventing.. as well as some domain swapping (literally […]
Our May 15 issue—the Art Issue—is now online, with Susan Tallman on warp and weft, Ingrid D. Rowland on Vitruvius, Jerome Groopman on antivaccine lunacy, Martin Filler on the new Frick, Julian Bell on art in an age of crisis, Lisa Halliday on Claire Messud, Heather O’Donnell on the […]
Global Impact: The Case of Film by Sijia Yao Over the past several decades, America’s Hollywood as a cinematic and entertainment industry has emerged and maintained a successful model of cultural globalization. In the past two decades, Hanliu or the Korean Wave, which first gained popularity in East […]
April 24, 2025 | Read Online Your new language is just three weeks away Take advantage of Babbel’s Earth Day Sale Got big dreams for 2025? You’re in the right spot. With just 10 minutes a day, you can be speaking a new language like you’ve […]
Troy Southgate Apr 14, 2025 COPIES of our second album, The Age of Alexander, are available from https://gladivsrecords.bandcamp.com/
What White Lotus tells us about Western spiritual malaise and the so-called elite James the Hun Apr 09, 2025 HBO’s hit series White Lotus is a gem among many duds in the modern entertainment landscape. At the heart of its satirical and mystery-driven reverse whodunit premise is a […]
by Alexander Markovics Alexander Markovics Apr 10, 2025 Alexander Markovics portrays David Lynch as a visionary filmmaker whose surreal and unsettling works expose the dark undercurrents of American reality, offering both critique and catalyst for a collective awakening from the illusions of modernity. While the majority of directors […]
“These stunning translations of Master Rumi, at once gustatory and spiritual, cut the gloom of our existential doings. Imperative now, as ever, to know this beauty and love.” —Anne Waldman WATER Rumi Translated from the Persian by Haleh Liza Gafori Water expands on Gold, Haleh Liza Gafori’s inspired and widely praised translation […]
The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero by anon (not verified)Apr 8, 2025 From The New Yorker – Nine years after retiring his alter ego, Pat the Bunny, Patrick Schneeweis is ready to sing again. Tags MSM punk music folk the system folk punk oogles Read more about The […]
Sponsored by the University of Chicago Press Our April 10 issue is now online, with Michael Gorra on the majesty of Caspar David Friedrich, Cathleen Schine on Hanif Kureishi, Wendy Doniger on letting slip the horses of war, Adam Thirlwell on Lars von Trier, Christian Caryl on denazification, Miri Rubin […]
A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s March 13 and March 27 issues. This newsletter comes to you while I’m watching Thunder on the Hill, part of the “Douglas Sirk Noir” series currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. A […]
Sponsored by The Morgan Library & Museum In our March 27 issue, Catherine Nicholson writes about Paradise Lost and the many readings, interpretations, and rereadings that have sustained John Milton’s epic poem for nearly four hundred years. People as far apart in time and disposition as William Blake and Malcolm […]
Ursula K. Le Guin: Is Gender Necessary? Redux “Is Gender Necessary?” first appeared in Aurora, that splendid first anthology of science fiction written by women, edited by Susan Anderson and Vonda N. McIntyre. It was later included in The Language of the Night. Even then I was getting uncomfortable with some of […]
Origins of Colonialism # – a New Experimental Film Over the last eighteen months I have been steadily accumulating ‘footage’ for a new series of experimental poem-films. This is the first and was filmed in at various locations in Germany Ireland, Switzerland and Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. ‘Origins of […]
Letter from New York City March 2025 Dear Readers, Though the first day of spring is still a couple of weeks away, it feels like we are getting a jump on the literary season this month. We have lots of events coming up, not to mention several new […]
3 March, 2025 Bryan Mercadente Monster (2014): A Portrait of Madness and Murder Directed by: Hwang In-ho Written by: Hwang In-ho Starring: Lee Min-ki, Kim Go-eun, Kim Roi-ha, Ahn Seo-hyun Release Date: March 13, 2014 (South Korea) Available on: Amazon Prime I recently watched Monster (2014) on Amazon […]
From art exhibitions to rock concerts, Techno-Romanticism explains how we venerate Romantic transcendence but experience events through the digital screen. Alexander Adams Mar 04, 2025 [Christiane Baumgartner, Elysium, 2023, Woodcut / 198 x 152.5 cm – 78 x 60 inches, Edition of 6, Courtesy artist and Cristea Roberts […]
Sponsored by McCarter Theatre Center Russian human rights organizations estimate that there may be as many as 10,000 political prisoners scattered across the country’s penal colonies. Last summer, Joy Neumeyer wrote to fourteen of these imprisoned dissidents, unsure whether anyone would even receive her messages. To her surprise, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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