“This isn’t life, or death, but something in between, some other geography.” If Christine Evans’s play, Slow Falling Bird, has a central focus in its narrative of Australian xenophobia and... Read more
Last fall, I got in a rather bizarre accident. It’s a long story, but it involves a trip to an apple farm, a hayride trailer carrying lots of innocent children... Read more
“Is it joy? Is it friendship? Is it experience? Is it a means to survival? What is food to you?” These are the kinds of questions my friend, Katherine, posed... Read more
This past weekend, I did something incredibly nerve-wracking for me. No, it wasn’t exposing myself to the arctic weather or even the smutty antics and laughable dialogue of Fifty Shades... Read more
Claustrophobia can be a little maddening. At least, that seems to be the overarching message of Black Sea, an anxiety-inducing, modern pirate romp featuring a Scottish-accented Jude Law on a... Read more
Everything seems a little tidier in retrospect, the visceral immediacy of a moment a little muted in its distance from the present. The moment I’m thinking about occurred last summer,... Read more
I mentioned becoming a new fan of The Good Wife to a guy friend recently, who responded that it didn’t sound like it was a show meant for his demographic.... Read more
I can’t stop watching Gilmore Girls. Its specific breed of escapism has sucked me in. It seems to mimic real life while always feeling just out of reach. The dialogue... Read more
It often seems like the only thing families have in common is their final initial. Many of us are familiar with these pervasive dysfunctional families, if not ambivalent members of... Read more
Politics and television are hardly strangers—the drama, intrigue, and pantsuits of the former are often perfectly suited to the latter, if a tad exaggerated. The challenge of political TV is... Read more
