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2019-08-23T20:07:07-04:00

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Against Storytelling: My tribute to Pasolini’s famously-unwatchable “Salo”

Last updated on: August 23, 2019 at 8:07 pm By Eve Tushnet

at America magazine: There are 13 directors whose films are recommended by the Vatican for their depiction of religion, but not all led lives notable for their sanctity. And one went on to direct the most notorious art film of all time. It is unlikely that the Vatican will ever praise “Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom,” the last movie Pier Paolo Pasolini filmed before his murder. Yet that film’s anthropology—its account of what it means to be human—is... Read more

Art

all men are [redacted] equal

Joshua Oppenheimer

Pasolini is me

sun sex sin death and destruction

the imagination of man's heart

2019-08-17T17:36:43-04:00

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“I Want Everyone to Get High!”… And Other Contemporary Christian Anthems

Last updated on: August 17, 2019 at 5:36 pm By Eve Tushnet

Relatively short reviews of three new(ish) albums by indie musicians who are various stripes of Christian. Three very different approaches, even within the extremely narrow subgenre of “guy with crackly kinda difficult voice and a million emotions tries not to despair, while playing the guitar.” In, iirc, order of album release. The Mountain Goats, “In League with Dragons.“ I love the Mountain Goats. Somebody got me to listen to this thing (trigger warning: No Children) and I was instantly hooked.... Read more

Art

Mackerel-Snapping

children will listen

gayer than a picnic basket

Harrison Lemke

if whiskey were a woman I'd be married for sure

in the flesh

it is very dark. you are likely to be wrestled by an angel.

Mountain Goats

Steve Slagg

sublimity now

2019-08-13T12:35:20-04:00

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A New Pop Musical About the Six Wives of Henry VIII

Last updated on: August 13, 2019 at 12:35 pm By Eve Tushnet

I was in London recently for a family vacation. Lots of new discoveries, including Sue Symons, whose beautiful, emotional depictions of scenes from the Hebrew Bible were on display at Bath Abbey. She’s also done a New Testament series, and I’d really recommend them for your delight and meditation. I also saw “Six,” a pop musical about the women mostly known to us as items in a list: “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.” This is a pop confection, tarted... Read more

Art

England your England

moral memories of the past

she says "I am not a femini-i-ist"

sweet smell of success

2019-07-31T17:00:08-04:00

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The Night Ape Sex Came Home to Play

Last updated on: July 31, 2019 at 5:00 pm By Eve Tushnet

In the summer before I went to college, a comic collection came out: Chester Square by Jaime Hernandez, the thirteenth volume in the greatest comics series of all time. Love and Rockets was started in 1981 by three brothers: Jaime, Gilbert, and the elusive Mario. Gilbert mostly made comics about the fictional Latin American village of Palomar, where the slugs are tasty, the children are spooky, and the men are confused ’cause the women make you growl. The art is... Read more

Art

friendship

gayer than a picnic basket

home is anywhere you hang your head

Los Bros Hernandez

memories are films about ghosts

2019-07-31T16:12:26-04:00

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If My Heart Was a House You’d Be Home By Now: Two short movie reviews

Last updated on: July 31, 2019 at 4:12 pm By Eve Tushnet

The Last Black Man in San Francisco: I thought this would be a story of gentrification; it’s sort of that, but mostly something stranger and more haunting. Jimmie Fails (played by an actor of the same name, who also co-wrote with his childhood friend Joe Talbot) is obsessed with the house he grew up in, which has passed into the hands of a white couple. With his best friend Mont (Jonathan Majors) he visits the house and engages in guerrilla... Read more

home is anywhere you hang your head

prepare for life in capitalist America: play Class Struggle--the Game

2019-07-24T12:36:49-04:00

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My Summer of Ice Cube Continues: Two Views of Black Chicago’s Past

Last updated on: July 24, 2019 at 12:36 pm By Eve Tushnet

I recently revisited the immensely pleasurable 2002 comedy Barbershop, set in pretty much the year it was made in a struggling Chicago neighborhood; and read Eric Charles May’s Bedrock Faith, a 2014 novel looking back on a slightly wealthier slice of black Chicago society in the bad old days of 1993. Pairing them is somewhat artificial, I know, but for what it’s worth, they are both concerned with coming home after prison and the possibility of a second chance–this is... Read more

Art

Mackerel-Snapping

God bless the 1990s because no one else will

home is anywhere you hang your head

Ice Cube

reading and repentance

2019-07-17T22:22:31-04:00

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From the Harlem Renaissance to the Overlook Hotel: Short book notes

Last updated on: July 17, 2019 at 10:22 pm By Eve Tushnet

Dorothy West, The Living Is Easy: The reductive way to describe this soapy tale of a woman whose contradictory desires destroy her family is, “What if Scarlett O’Hara were a black woman living in Boston on the eve of the first World War?” West, who was one of the youngest figures of the Harlem Renaissance, makes Cleo Jericho Judson into a fabulous woman-monster out of legend. Cleo trains her daughter in Boston respectability while longing for “the amoral South,” the... Read more

prepare for life in capitalist America: play Class Struggle--the Game

race

Stephen King

sun sex sin death and destruction

the definition of revolutionary success

2019-07-15T11:53:49-04:00

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Do We Really Need A New Translation of the “Confessions”? Surprisingly, Yes!

Last updated on: July 15, 2019 at 11:53 am By Eve Tushnet

I review Thomas Williams’s flamboyantly helpful new edition, for the University Bookman: Thomas Williams spends a decent chunk of the introduction to his new translation of St. Augustine’s Confessions justifying its existence. What can yet another translation hope to provide? Did Augustine steal more pears since the last one? Last year I read Sarah Ruden’s 2017 translation, and re-read the limpid F. J. Sheed translation that first introduced me to Augustine. Of these three the Williams is the one I’d hand... Read more

Art

Mackerel-Snapping

Augustine

His banner over me was love

weird saints

2019-07-12T11:21:58-04:00

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Hear My New Novel at the Catholic Imagination Conference!

Last updated on: July 12, 2019 at 11:21 am By Eve Tushnet

Hey, remember that novel I was shopping around? This one: It’s a comedy about a woman returning to DC after federal prison, trying to reenter her old social circle of local sadomasochists and get used to her new circle of halfway-house residents; when she learns that someone she knows is being abused, she needs to decide how much of her new life she’s willing to risk. Comedy gold! I have news. First off, I’ve found a publisher: Clickworks, the Baltimore... Read more

self-obsessed

my fiction

Voluntary Compliance

2019-06-27T08:31:45-04:00

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Eight “Catholic Horror Films” from a Global Church

Last updated on: June 27, 2019 at 8:31 am By Eve Tushnet

I’m at America magazine, venturing beyond America: Everybody knows the Catholic Church dominates the world of religious horror films. The sumptuous vestments, the Latin chants, the millennia-old practices—not to mention the extremely literal belief in a living Devil, who, as Pope Francis frequently notes, still works in the world today—all seem custom-made for a genre that evokes rapture and fear. Catholic faith and practices offer a striking visual and auditory language through which horror films can explore the limits of... Read more

Art

Mackerel-Snapping

abuse of power comes as no surprise

horror

mackerel-snapping

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