“The world is in very bad shape, but cinema in a way is a peaceful life.” — Agnès Varda
Interview
Book Interview: “Bad Environmentalism” — Laughing at Gloom and Doom
Mainstream environmentalism is not just serious and sanctimonious, it also happens to be very white and very heteronormative.
Rock Interview: The Flesh Eaters Redux
The Flesh Eaters have returned with renewed vitality, after it hit some troughs and sputtered to a near stop.
Book Interview: Tina Cassidy on the Woman Who Made Women’s Sufferage Happen
Tina Cassidy talks about her revealing and enjoyable new book about how a woman’s right to vote became enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
Author Interview: Writer Clive James — Writing Against the Dying of the Light
Imagine a combination of Stephen Colbert (the real one, that is) and John Updike.
Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance
Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?
Film Interview: Syrian Filmmaker Talal Derki on his Oscar-Nominated Documentary — Separating Delusions from Mythology
Syrian-Kurdish filmmaker Talal Derki on love and hate in his homeland and the “schizophrenia” of being an Oscar nominee.
Music Interview: Martin Phillipps of The Chills
It would appear that Martin Phillipps and company are experiencing a late-career renaissance that bodes well for their future.
Music Interview: Michael Daves on How Anyone can be a Bluegrass Singer
“You don’t really know how to perform bluegrass until you interact with others.”
Music Interview: Talking With Colin Blunstone — Post-Zombies
“It’s a very exciting prospect that your peers think your worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”