Colin Meloy has a voice from another time. So it’s not surprising that he finds inspiration in topics that have a mythical, long ago feeling to them. The singer and primary songwriter of Portland, Ore.-based band The Decemberists …
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IQ84: A Murakami Novel Sans Murakami
Haruki Murakami may be the world’s most popular working literary author. And there is absolutely no logical reason for this.
He’s not an especially nimble writer, and you’d be hard-pressed to pick out a passage of his work …
Antonio Banderas in Puss in Boots: One Cool Cat
What if a real hero had seen too many movies with fantasy heroes? That’s Puss in Boots, who’s compelled to buttress his courage, resourcefulness and expert swordsmanship with a swagger ill-suiting a tiny ginger cat in a giant …
Gaga in Love With Like Crazy
Most movie romances dwell on the chase, fading to black shortly after both parties first acknowledge that, yeah, maybe they do love each other. In the first few minutes of Like Crazy, Anna (Felicity Jones), a young Englishwoman …
In Time: Justin Timberlake Tries to Beat the Clock
This futurist parable, about the immortal 1% and the doomed 99%, has a great premise that doesn’t make a great movie
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TV Tonight: Beavis and Butt-Head Return
I always loved Beavis and Butt-Head, but it was mostly for the wrong reasons. The ’90s show was groundbreaking and culturally significant for its interstitial scenes, in which Mike Judge’s two cartoon idiots would watch music …
Is John Jeremiah Sullivan the New Tom Wolfe? Yes. Yes He Is.
Six months ago, when David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King came out, I wrote an essay about it in TIME. I thought it was a good essay. So good was it, I thought, that when Longreads.com picked its favorite long-form essays of the …
Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh?
The Pirates star takes a break from kid-centric movies to honor his old pal Hunter Thompson with this louche, fitfully appealing comedy
Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really?
Disaster flick director Roland Emmerich turns Shakespeare into an illiterate baboon.
Tom Waits Goes Back to the Well on Bad As Me
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
Tom Waits may pay the mortgage as a musician, but he clearly has the …
NBA Legend Jerry West Opens Up In New Autobiography
Two years ago, Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open, set a new standard for sports memoirs. For too long, jock books were content with being bland recollections of an athlete’s achievements. Designed to cement a legacy, they bored …
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TV Weekend: Once Upon a Time
There is a school of thought in Hollywood that the best way to tell an audience a story is to make it one they’ve heard before. Hence the revival of multiple comic-book franchises, the (failed) rebooting of Charlie’s Angels and …
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Starz’s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject
The dramatic grimness comes quick and often in Starz’s new show starring Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago Mayor