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• Reading List: January.

  Non-Fiction: James Gleick: Time Travel.Olivia Laing: Lonely City.Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle. Jean Baudrillard: Simulcra and Simulation.Breanne Fah... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence

  The confusion began shortly after Trump issued his sweeping executive order on Friday night. Under its provisions, Trump suspended the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• After a Week

  I don't even know where to start with this. It's been a week, and if there was any doubt that this would be anything but a dismantling of established rules, of... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Sweet/Vicious

  

  Jules: I know how to do things most people don't. There is stuff happening out there and no one is doing anything about it. People are just getting away with... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2017 TV & VIDEO

• "Misogyny Was Everywhere"

  Trump is patriarchy unbuttoned, paunchy, in a baggy suit, with his hair oozing and his lips flapping and his face squinching into clownish expressions of mocker... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/1/17

  Politics: Currently breaking: unverified reports that the Russian intelligence service possesses compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump (th... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Wesley Lowery: They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.Nancy Isenberg: White Trash. The... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  Albums: Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos.Solange - A Seat at the Table.Angel Olsen - My Woman.Blood Orange - Freetown Sound.Beyoncé - Lemonade.Savages - Adore... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  Best new show: UndergroundThere is nothing I could say about this show that Shannon M. Houston at Paste hasn't said much better.WestworldHow we construct and... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  It Follows (2015)The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)The Wolfpack (2015)LemonadeCarol (2015)Certain WomenStar Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 31/12/16 Compact Edition

  Politics and Pop Culture: We have to resist: A Longreads interview with Rebecca Solnit. 'Did the Russian government direct a cyber campaign against the U.S. in... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year

  Non-FictionClaudia Rankine: Citizen. An American Lyric.Jesmyn Ward (ed.): The Fire Next Time. A New Generation Speaks About Race.Dave Cullen: Columbine.Rebecca... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - Table of Contents

  Season One: The Original.Chestnut.The Stray. Dissonance Theory.Contrapasso.The Adversary.Trompe L'Oeil.Trace Decay.The Well-Tempered Clavier.The Bicameral Mind. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - Because This World Doesn’t Belong to You.

  

  Westworld: 1x10 The Bicameral Mind.Dolores: They say that great beasts once roamed this world, as big as mountains. Yet all that’s left of them is bone and... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 8/12/16

  Politics: The media normalisation of the Trump regime is already beginning. Welcome to the kleptocracy. This is essential reading: on resistence and... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – Remember.

  

  Westworld: 1x09 The Well-Tempered Clavier.There are three characters here, haunted by memories, trying to piece themselves together but finally ending up in ver... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Fiction: Kate Atkinson: Life After Life. Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley.Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Ground. N.K. Jemisin: The Obelisk... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - Time to Write My Own Fucking Story.

  

  Westworld: 1x08 Trace Decay.In the beginning, the hosts were simple. They had simple emotions, they had a simple life. Arnold loved them, and he taught them to... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – They Don’t Look Like Anything to Me.

  

  Westworld: 1x07 Trompe L'Oeil.If I had a world of my own, nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Tyrant-proofing the White House

  A prosecutor—and by extention, a tyrant president who directs that prosecutor—can harass or target almost anyone, and he can often do so without violating any... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO