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The Musical Man of Ghent
The creatures of the world live on. I’m in Ghent, Belgium. Have been for the last two weeks. Because I’m leaving, today, I thought I should share a story with you. despite growing up in the Southwest, taking roadtrips to California across the desert, and living in New York City for six years. I was Continue reading
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The Spirit of the Future
Two weeks in Ghent Ghent, Belgium. A small town with a university half an hour by train from Brussels. A nice place with a canal that winds its way through the old buildings and beautiful new architecture alike. The town shouts, progress uninterrupted. Neither destroyed only to rise from the ashes after World War II Continue reading
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Time for a Run
Self-consciously, I went for a run along one of the canals in Paris, and thought maybe there’s no good reason for the Olympics to be held this year. Three weeks ago, I left the US for Europe and spent a couple of weeks in Paris. This is what I remember thinking about. The serene Canal Continue reading
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“Inherent Vice” Review: Oral Fixations, Ex-Old Ladies, and Crises of Conscience in the Valley
Take everything that marks a Thomas Pynchon novel – winding sentences, intimate bonds, unmanly but not uncourageous violence, and lots oral sex – set it in Southern California, and structure it like a Raymond Chandler mystery, and you get Inherent Vice. Political, sexual, and something of a stubborn-youth story, Pynchon’s drug addled PI romp is as Continue reading
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“Beau Is Afraid” Review: Never Let Me Go
Ari Aster’s newest tale of uncanny horror follows a terrified and dependent Beau Wassermann in his mission to return to his mother’s home from a city apartment in a tale of Odyssean proportions, and peculiar singularity. It takes minutes of the audience knowing Beau to realize that he has a knack for attracting the anxiety Continue reading
Benjamin Linder 