
Luster in the Louvre, please
Raven Leilani’s novel verbalises almost perfectly, I imagine, the endless struggle of being an African-American woman.

Zambian Creativity Vs the World
What do you get when you cross a selfie with an essay? An interview about advertising, baby!

Loaded Verse
“In the delightful rejoicing of our own mortality, we may learn something about empathy — about the instincts needed to live life in the midst of others at least sometimes.”

Happy Opening Day
Baseball’s return, come fight me I dare you, is the most wonderful time of the year.

Injustice League
An open plea for Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, Apocalypse, anybody!, to destroy super-hero cinema.

The trouble with WandaVision
Marvel Studios is the greatest ad agency in the world - but here’s the thing.

Fleekonomics
On Normal People, Exciting Times, HBO’s Industry, and ‘adulting’ in the 21st Century.

WesFest Day 2: Rushmore
Rushmore has aged so damn well … that it’s hard to imagine a better Anderson movie.

Ode to DOOM
A tribute, as best I could, to your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper.
Image courtesy of Eric Coleman.

WesFest Day 1: Bottle Rocket
I’m rewatching every Wes Anderson movie ever, even the not-so-Wes-Andersony ones, and delivering feels.

Play it as it Lays
The tunes I played to death and back, in 2020. Tell me what YOU vibed to in the comments!

It’s tip-off day!
The most intriguing storylines in the NBA, I think, as at Opening Night.

Mother Sparker
A (non-fictional) tale of (corporate) Mortal Kombat.

Show me the coast
In HBO’s We Are Who We Are, literally everyone and everything is complicated.

Emma Cline makes fiction look mostly easy
‘Daddy’, a collection about unresolved feelings, always seems to come full circle.

It’s a bird! - it’s a plane! - it’s … a little unremarkable?
The Boys is a refreshing middle finger at super-heroes’ grip on pop culture - but little else.

Bill Murray deserves perfect happiness, and an Academy Award
‘On the Rocks’ is a wine-tasting, and there’s chocolate cake too.

Baseball, You Saved My Life
Again.

Proper Tott’n’m
It feels proper good to see Tottenham Hotspur playing with intent, hunger, and desire again - and (yes) for Jose Mourinho.

The Carcass Caucus
With some persuasion, Bazzi shares a poem. We analyse it like a coupla (ahem) pros.
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