Every Friday, the Anobium web staff provides some ideas for what to do with that paycheck in this new segment, “Commerce in Shall.” The title comes from Catherine Wagner’s poem “Macular Hole,” which can be heard here and is available from Fence. Fund the relocation of Seven Kitchens Press by purchasing a copy of editor […]
If I close my eyes hard enough, maybe adding some pressure with my thumb and forefinger, I see glints of technicolor atop infinite darkness. I’m transported back to fourth grade, a field trip to the planetarium. Library-quietness hangs in the air inside the auditorium. The seats are plush and recline and swallow up the children. […]
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, there is no talk of higher powers, no lingering on words handed down by deities. The religious leader here is “a man—a hopelessly inquisitive man,” Lancaster Dodd, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and his followers are those who have strayed from the path. Strays are guided back through time […]
For Nas, as with Orson Welles, his first was always his best. His 1994 debut, Illmatic, was unexpected, combative, clever, supremely confident, and often cocky (after all, every rapper worth his salt is his own best hype man). Nas has tried to live up to the potential of that masterful introduction for nearly two decades, […]
Time Capsule: Eighth Grade In our last jump to my early elementary education, we observed a boy embracing rebellion and exploring alienation, an imagination taking root and sprouting sour berries of fictional oddity. Here, we flash forward to eighth grade where those central themes have exploded, the vines becoming overgrown, unmanicured to the point of […]
