Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Wikipedia bans some editors from gender-related articles: Wikipedia’s arbitration committee, the highest user-run body on the site, has voted to ban a number of editors from making corrections to articles […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Martin Luther King, Jr., tells a joke on The Tonight Show: OK, it’s not a good joke, but the man was busy. It was Feb. 8, 1968, and Martin Luther […]
Amelia is having a nightmare, and first time director Jennifer Kent begins her psychological horror film, The Babadook, by placing the viewer in the middle of it. The film’s first shot is a close-up of Amelia breathing in a distressed rhythm, as if in labor. A few seconds later, a shrill scream accompanies breaking glass […]
The Other Journal features the abstract landscape paintings and writings of emerging artist George Davis.
This debut feature from Paul Harrill has been getting a lot of press. Jeffrey Overstreet mentioned it in his Top Ten for 2014. Justin Chang wrote it up for Variety. Christianity Today posted an interview with Harrill. The NY Times featured it last week as a Critic’s Pick. And Darren Hughes hosted an insightful interview […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. A story about the town without wi-fi: The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can’t use cell phones, wi-fi, or other kinds of modern technology due to a high-tech government […]
A non-native-Midwesterner wonders out loud about the fields.
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye the past week. Terry Eagleton on the death of universities: Are the humanities about to disappear from our universities? The question is absurd. It would be like asking whether alcohol is about to disappear […]
There is a series of shots in Selma that called to mind a passage from Perez’s The Material Ghost. In this section, Perez is talking about the shot reverse shot convention. “The shot/reverse shot does not give us a bystander’s view: it has us stand in turn where each character stands.That people engaged in conversation will […]