Review: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book
“Even true stories have to be invented sometimes to be remembered…” The winner of Australia’s premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, was announced last week – it went to Evie...
Category: Arts & Literature
Review: Extant
Making the hop from film to television seems to be increasingly common these days, so it’s no great surprise to see Halle Berry headlining CBS’s latest sci-fi offering, Extant. The show premiered...
The Ten Books You Need To Read Before You Die!
There has been so many books published over the years in both classic and contemporary genres that it is so hard to know what is valuable or interesting to read and what is not. In this article I aim...
Cancelling Hieroglyph: Is 2014 a Turning Point for TV’s Handling of Race?
With a rise in interest in sweeping historical dramas filled with intrigue, betrayal, amazing frocks, and sensuality, it’s not surprising to see almost every US network vying to produce some...
Review: Exhibition
What if in this age of austerity all the modernist homes of the urban intelligentsia were actually spacecraft? What if these chameleon constructs were housing the agents of bourgeois gentrification?...
Sidelining Molly: The Fargo Finale’s Women Problem
Critics are raving about the season finale of Fargo, which just aired on FX. The reimagining of the famous Coen brothers film turned it into a 10 hour miniseries that aimed to find the perfect...
Combat Documentarian Rachel Beth Anderson on “First to Fall”
While there seems to be no shortage of cursory stories from the front lines of recent Middle Eastern conflicts, filmmakers Rachel Beth Anderson and Tim Grucza have decided to dig deeper. During the...
Review: Little Women LA
During the first episode of the new reality tv series by Lifetime, Little Women, one of the women being followed throughout the show exclaims "We all see life from the same perspective!" and laughs....
How Progressive is Orange is the New Black, Really?
Everyone’s watching the latest season of Orange is the New Black, but what does that really say about US culture and society? As the thinkpieces roll out, fans fill Twitter, and roundtable...
In Favour of YA: Why Adults Shouldn’t Feel Embarrassed to Read Children’s Literature
Oh look, yet another article trashing YA, its authors, and its readers. It must be a day ending in Y. This time, it’s on Slate, where writer Ruth Graham smugly insists that adults who read young...