ON BOOKS
In The Cafe Review
Tyehimba Jess's Olio
C.D. Wright’s One With Others
Nick Lantz’s We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville
Stephanie Pippin’s The Messenger
In the Portland Phoenix
Betsy Sholl’s Rough Cradle
Gibson Fay-Leblanc’s Death of a Ventriloquist
Jonathan Aldrich’s The Ring Road
ON FILM & Art
In the Portland Phoenix
On Bill Morrison's ingenious found-footage documentary of a gold rush town, Dawson City: Frozen Time.
On Cristobal Leon and Joaquin Cocina’s haunting and shape-shifting stop-motion feature La Casa Lobo
On Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s scathing slasher-cum-colonialist critique Bacurau.
On Makoto Nagahisa’s deliciously stylized orphan phantasmagoria We Are Little Zombies.
On Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's formally dazzling Lesotho fable This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection.
On Agnieszka Smoczynska’s horror-musical The Lure and its carnivorous mermaid sisters.
On Raoul Peck's documentary portrait of James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro.
in The Chart
Islands, flux, and migration in the short films Lampedusa and Sublunary, by Mariangela Ciccarello and Philip Cartelli.
Printmaker Terry Winters and Poet Mark Melnicove's collaborative sequence Sometimes times: Prints and poems, at Able Baker Contemporary.