Like all the books published by ShortBox, Jonathan Djob Nkondo’s After Laughter is a beautiful object, printed to a high…
Filmic mythology
If the daft comedy Raising Arizona was a film made of style, with Miller’s Crossing the Coen Brothers showed that…
Habitable insouciance
I haven’t seen a great deal of James Stokoe’s work, but what I have seen has been right up my…
Socks off
Clever, metatextual movies don’t have to be intellectual or gnomic: sometimes they can just be hella entertaining. The most obvious…
Lining up their ducks
The Clash were one of the first bands I got into as a teenager—late as usual, they broke up just…
Style over easy
Joel and Ethan Coen’s second feature-film, Raising Arizona stands in stark contrast to their first, Blood Simple. It’s an extremely…
The magic of the real
My introduction to fantasy fiction was The Lord of the Rings, which I encountered surprisingly early, while visiting a friend…
