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Their Clear Unobstructed View
We lived in a place for people who did not matter. No one considered it a town—just an overpass above the freeway, dry fields to the east, overgrown hills to the west, a place cars passed under without stopping. We…
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Heaven, Hell, and Nowhere: Gregg Araki’s Changing Los Angeles
Lights pulse in nightclubs, shadows expand in the middle of the night, and beautiful young people dream and experiment, seeking transcendence through drugs, alcohol, sex. Where his earlier films make cheap motels and marginal spaces feel charged with possibility, I…
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The Missing Word
The problem is not simply what Israelis know about 1948. Israel needs a new story about itself. The old one has become a trap. It knows how to tell Jewish stories of exile and return, but not Palestinian ones. It…
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Why Widow’s Bay Is Truly Peak Television
Like David Lynch and Mark Frost’s masterpiece, Widow’s Bay gives us a look at the chilling darkness of small-town life, the rot on the inside of the white picket fence.
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Three Poems
Why on a school bus returning from a field trip? Why the back of my head as I sat in the row ahead of you? Did you both spit or only one? Who followed whose cruel idea?
