In Julia Cohen’s luminous Triggermoon Triggermoon, we hover in the liminal space between the domestic and the dreamlike: “a nightgown soaked in milk” appears on the first page. This tension, this duality – between our physical and our otherworldly, spiritual selves; between self and other; between childhood and adulthood; even the duality within – holds […]
Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. – Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida Horns blare. Out of the shadows comes Bond, walking confidently in silhouette. A swathe of light crosses his eyes. Casino Royale fantastically redeveloped the tone and style of the Bond film, […]
There’s an argument to be made against releasing and listening to a film score as an album. Separate from its whole, certain nuances can be lost along with its narrative contrivance. Certain films live and die by the combinatorial arrangement of images and sound, and it is in the delicate balance between the pieces that many […]
I. The World’s Most Celebrated Hand-Job Since 1954, thousands have gather to celebrate Bloomsday, the epic tribute to Joyce’s Ulysses. The devout make the pilgrimage to Dublin – no bargain vacation, these days – to retrace the crisscrossing paths of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in real-time, over the course of an entire day. Even […]
Thoughts in response to Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks: —Oliver Sacks is a regular New Yorker contributor, and though I was peripherally familiar with some of his work, I hadn’t been directly exposed to it until I read his essay “Altered States” in the August 27, 2012 issue of the New Yorker. In it, Sacks discusses […]
