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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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Listening Party: Brat, Charli xcx
I donβt usually tell people I like anything popular. Itβs not rebellionβitβs instinct. But I love popstars. Not pop music, necessarily, but the machinery of it. The myth-making. The kind of woman who enters the room like she invented the door. Reality TV is full of them: women whose every gesture is curated, every meltdown β read more
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Listening Party: Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
Over the past few days, Iβve been making notes while listening to Bruce Springsteenβs Born in the U.S.A. Iβve probably listened to the album about three times now, each spin revealing something new. Originally released in 1984 during Ronald Reaganβs presidency, the album came out at a time when America was wrapped in patriotic fervor β read more
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Retake: Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass, Lana del Rey
Notice itβs another year where spring is over and summer has a way of making an entrance. And here I am, on my bed, listening to Lana Del Rey when I should be rereading Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. I say βshouldβ not because the poems require discipline or rigor, but because they seem β read more
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