The American Landscape in Three Shades of Death
by Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda went looking for America but could not find it. Together, they documented…
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The Camera Was Always Running: Online Consciousness, Jonas Mekas, and Downtown Cultural Memory
by Sean Krupa Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running (until June 5, 2022 at The Jewish Museum) Arrangement of…
Beholding Beatrix
by Amalia Rizos Beatrix (2021), dir. Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner Watching the new Austrian film Beatrix is akin to…
Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death
by Destini Baylis Adams A Very Easy Death (1964) by Simone de Beauvoir We are all going to die. No…
She Had, She Lost, She Whined: Mona at Sea
by James Freyland Mona at Sea (2021), by Elizabeth Gonzalez James In his 1967 critique of capitalism, Guy Debord notes,…
The Righteous Gemstones Knows America Too Well
by Colleen Secaur The Righteous Gemstones (season 2, 2022), created by Danny McBride There seems to be a common understanding…
Why Should People Read Maus?
by Samantha Reddick Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1991) by Art Spiegelman With the surge of anti-Semitic hate crimes, Art Spiegelman’s…
Memory and Present-Dystopia in Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House
by Natasha Roy The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan’s new novel, The Candy House, borrows its title…
How Does One Become “Exemplary”? Just Ask Mehrin Ali
By Noela Franco When I sit down with Mehrin for our interview, her effortless style pops out immediately: all black…
The Multilayered Joy that is WNYU, as Explained by General Manager Cate Hynes
By Noela Franco Cate Hynes is a graduating senior at NYU studying Journalism and Media Studies. Originally from right outside…