An impasse. A quandary. A pickle. A choice. In this issue, we’re looking at dilemmas: the in-betweens and roads not taken, the murky areas, the shades of gray. Read More
Zero Dark Thirty is a parable of what happens when you sacrifice so much to win the battle that you forget you've lost the war. Read More
I was an anxious kid. I hated the dark. Sometimes, when I was playing in my parents’ basement, my mom... Read More
The movie begins with a close-up of Woody Allen sputtering into the camera about genius. “Why Emmet Ray? To me,... Read More
Like the best of David Foster Wallace’s writing, The End of the Tour is a film both sparkling with the alacrity of life and rife with double binds. Read More
Loyalty to the source material is a curious thing. In modern terms, although it’s clambered for and scrutinized mercilessly by... Read More
I have struggled with the idea of what it means to be grown up. Like so many other so-called adults,... Read More
1. I am indoors, with earbuds, watching media about connecting with nature, and thus the self. “Where have the simple... Read More