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On Oct. 9, 1971, 20th-Fox unveiled William Friedkin’s The French Connection in theaters. The Gene Hackman thriller went on to…
There’s a thread of desperation here that’s in tension with B0YG1RL’s no-holds-barred thrillseeking. “Hope you touch me, I hope you…
Anna Atkins, the 19th century botanist and photographer whose Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions is widely regarded as the…
On paper, director Tom McCarthy‘s latest film, A Statement might appear to be a dense polemic, hardly the stuff of…
Attacks on and by students, a political comeback and the memory of past violence marked the week of Sept. 28…
At its best, the box set manages to put one’s received ideas about this most canonical of albums into flux,…
It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. But what about writing about writing? That often…
ki’s “tissue” conjures up a school of tiny fish. Flickers of maybe-phrases—“wanna be with you,” “what I’m saying”—stick out from…
Nathan Jenkins speaks about songwriting with the arcane detachment of a mage, often describing the process in passive voice. Lyrics…
“Blister Sunrise,” the opener and lead single of M83’s 10th studio album, begins with a breathy, spacious buildup that rivals…