


A Portrait of a Native American as a Young Woman: The Labyrinth of Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend
NOTE: This essay will contain spoilers. Erika T. Wurth’s debut novel Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend is a modern-day labyrinth. Although published almost a hundred years after James Joyce’s A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, both books explore the life of a young protagonist attempting to escape the destructive influences of poverty, culture, and […]

Maelstrom: An Interview with Brendan Monroe
Maelstrom: An Interview With Brendan Monroe by Jacob van Loon Blobography, an exhibition of Brendan Monroe’s ceramic sculptures, recently concluded at Heath Ceramics in Los Angeles. A fetching, carefully considered myriad of contrasting glazes adorn his small-to-mid scale figurative work — planes of textural, swirling color that look like they were skimmed off the gaseous planets […]

Matthew Chojnacki and the Fine Art of Alternative Movie Posters
To many who have read my work, my love of alternative movie posters will come as no surprise. I’ve found them to engage the particulars of a film’s soul more expertly and pay due respect to the qualities of filmgoing that bring avid fans back again and again. Thanks to Matthew Chojnacki and the good […]

Processing Organics With Jóhann Jóhannsson
One of the surprises of this fall’s film season was Prisoners, a film whose promotion relied on its star-studded cast, but grew to increasingly favorable reviews and decent reception at the box office. One of the mostly overlooked but key players in the film’s success was composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, whose experience in and out of film […]