“The truth is that the Coen brothers might be film’s greatest chroniclers of the era of income inequality.” Looking at the politics of the Coen brothers’ filmography at The Atlantic.

The New York Times has a look at Lydia Lunch throughout the years.

The Los Angeles Review of Books looks at the novels of David Stacton: “an invaluable cicerone in any setting, ancient or modern.”

Talking Bough Down at The Paris Review.

Ed Champion interviewed all-star literary biographer Blake Bailey.

Thee Oh Sees appear to be going on indefinite hiatus.

Reporting on the last show at 285 Kent.

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