Author: Nick Denardi
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Wayne Robbins and the fifth Apocalypse
1 The first one scared him so badly he had to change his pants before gathering up his family and making for his brother’s boat. If they could get deep into lake Michigan, was the thinking, they could perhaps survive the blast. Though even if they got that far, he assumed they would be watching…
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Fragments – Needful Things
“Because every choice had consequences. Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn’t pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful forever.” “He had begun business many years ago—as a wandering peddler on the blind face of a distant land, a…
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Needful Things, Shameful Things
[Spoiler-free section] As a Constant Reader, my journey through Stephen King’s bibliography has been as meandering as anyone else’s. Early stuff to late stuff, coke stuff to sober stuff, the beautiful and the rotten. But in my reading of Needful Things, I realized about halfway through that I had never gotten around to his cynical stuff. A…
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“I didn’t think he was really this bad” – what we wish they would finally admit
I can only come at this from my personal relationship to the main currents in American thought. I don’t know how many others followed my own precise trajectory, probably a few. But I do know that some never felt there was a trajectory at all, and are now gloating that their first reaction was correct,…
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Alex Garland and Jacques Rancière Walk Into a Bar
Setting the Scene The reviews of Alex Garland’s Warfare are essentially unanimous: it is a good film. The arguments that ensued upon its release were not about its cinematography, sound design, tension, atmosphere, performances, or any of the things that make for an impactful aesthetic experience. No, the arguments boiled down to a rather simple question about…
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