So you’re on the run. The bad news: you’re being pursued by both international spies and by the American police.... Read More
illustration by Brianna AshbyThree escaped convicts and a young man who claims to have sold his soul to the Devil... Read More
When I first saw American Movie, I was working at a vintage clothing store and blithely guzzling vodka sodas until four in the morning; I had recently graduated from college and had plenty of time to land myself in a 30 Under 30 list or apply to graduate school. There were no failures yet, only promise. Read More
In An American Tail, America takes on a mythic energy; it is the Golden Fleece, the Holy Grail and armour of Achilles. It is fulfillment, deliverance from trial, protection from evil. It is happiness and it is home. Read More
(Gun Crazy, d. Joseph H. Lewis, 1950) My name is a flag. Big things. I was born inside a parade,... Read More
illustration by Sophia Foster-Dimino “…only a half dozen Puritan millionaires stood on the wharf in the wind colder than the... Read More
It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around. Read More
Memory is a gift that allows us to carry pieces of the ones we love with us, wherever we go. Read More
Joe Versus the Volcano is a film that lives almost entirely in its own world, asking Big Questions about Big Things—but its heart is large, and its magic deep. Read More
o one ever told me how beautiful Sylvester Stallone was in 1976. Sunken-in eyes, almost able to make out the... Read More