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New Sincerity: The Hopeful Read
My relationship with New Sincerity is a bildungsroman. It began in high school, sometime in the early 2000s, when I first read Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. At the time, I couldnβt articulate what exactly made my chest ache when Toru Watanabe wandered Tokyo, weighed down by memory and emotional ambiguity. I only knew that β read more
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The Poolside Cannon
rereading depression studies feat. white lotus s1 so you don’t have to :) The juxtaposition of leisure and intellectual inquiry is rarely as fraught or self-conscious as it is in Mike Whiteβs The White Lotus (Season 1). The narrative centers on the lives of upper-class vacationers, and it is within this setting of curated paradise β read more
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Brief Takes: Jeff Vandermeer and Yevgeny Zamyatin
I only know two bookstores focused on speculative fiction, and one of them is Dark Carnival. Itβs a cramped, chaotic place: narrow aisles, overstuffed shelves, and stacks of books that block nearly every path. Finding what youβre looking for can be difficult, but thatβs part of the experience. The inventory far exceeds the floor space, β read more
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Brief Takes: Edogawa Rampo & Clarice Lispector
Perhaps my worst trait is impatience. Itβs not charming and it does not feel like it comes with ambition or nerves, but the clawing sort, the kind that makes me incapable of restraint in public spaces. I was in East Bay Booksellers, standing somewhere between the staff picks and the poetry shelf, when I realized β read more
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Movie Night: Mountainhead
Mountainhead is frustrating. Not because itβs incomprehensible, but because it thinks itβs saying something important when itβs really just four rich guys name-dropping dead philosophers to one-up each other. This is what happens when a movie wants to be My Dinner with Andre but ends up being Entourage for men who took one undergrad course β read more
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