04.20.2025 by Aaron Hicklin 04.20.2025 by Aaron Hicklin Squid Games Jean Baptiste Vérany's Forgotten Legacy
04.20.2025 by Aaron Hicklin 04.20.2025 by Aaron Hicklin “Before I Made Her Famous and the Rot Set In” In her immaculate documentary, Blue Road, Sinéad O’Shea pieces together the life of Edna O’Brien from diaries, archive footage, and the furious marginalia of a man determined to diminish her.
02.23.2025 by Aaron Hicklin 02.23.2025 by Aaron Hicklin When Dolly Parton Met Lord Byron Angela Dufresne talks to the writer Jennifer Kabat about history paintings, trashing the art world’s binaries, and why Gena Rowlands is her big screen crush.
10.31.2024 by Aaron Hicklin 10.31.2024 by Aaron Hicklin Something for the Weekend Queer Art in the Spotlight at London's Queeriosities
10.12.2024 by Aaron Hicklin 10.12.2024 by Aaron Hicklin Lore Segal wrote the Great American Novel you never read (and should) “I’m a helpless contrarian - say something to me, and I will check it out from the other side.”
09.03.2024 by Aaron Hicklin 09.03.2024 by Aaron Hicklin “I don’t know what thinking is except imagining stories.” Helen Phillips, the author of Hum, on a mother’s primal love, and the perfidy (and promise) of AI.
03.20.2024 by Aaron Hicklin 03.20.2024 by Aaron Hicklin The Great Escape How Thomas Allen Crafts New Tales from Old Pulp
02.26.2024 by Aaron Hicklin 02.26.2024 by Aaron Hicklin When Lucy Sante left her “pathetic ex-husband.” Post-transition, the newly-confident author of Low Life has lost her hangdog expression but not her sharp, critical wit or shrewdness.
12.12.2023 by Aaron Hicklin 12.12.2023 by Aaron Hicklin Everything is OK. Everything is not OK. Etgar Keret talks with Helen Phillips on not being enslaved by hatred, salvaging our dignity through humor, and the heartache of being a parent.
10.01.2023 by Aaron Hicklin 10.01.2023 by Aaron Hicklin It’s immoral to be apolitical "There is no mystery in the Russian soul; they want to suffer, they thrive on it, and they want us to suffer." - Victoria Amelina (1986-2023)
