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A 2017 The Believer interview with author Michael Pollan vs. a 2021 The Book Slut interview with author Liz Stratman.
After Musk buys Twitter, who’ll stand as the final artist of the medium?
A 2020 The Comics Journal interview with cartoonist Roz Chast vs. a 1983 Thomas Moore interview with the late musician Alvin Lucier.
A 1994 Archives of American Art interview with artist Sylvia Plimack Mangold vs. a 2022 BOMB Magazine interview with author Chloé Cooper Jones.
The outstanding (Before We Die), mid-pack (Chicago PD) and pretty shitty (Blue Bloods).
Kamandi 20 (“The Electric Chair”) spits in the face of vengeance while exploring the darkest sides of morality and post-modern alienation.
A 2005 Index Magazine interview with musician Yokota Yoshimi vs. a 2020 Front Runner Magazine interview with musician Matt Sweeney.
A 2013 Center for Fiction interview with writer Renata Adler vs. a 2021 AV Club interview with actor B.D. Wong.
Why are so many films and shows obsessed with spacetime?
Kamandi no. 28 shows his power to change identity at will and to capitalize on the prejudices of his enemies.
A 2012 Time Out Magazine interview with noise musician Keiji Haino vs a 1994 Hambone interview with the late jazz musician Cecil Taylor.
Inventing Anna and our country's obsession with grifters.
He said, she said, over and over again.
It’s fair to suggest that worn blue jeans are a claim to the experience which comes with the passage of time.
How the British honors system dishonors us all.
It’s one thing to become accepted for who you are, it’s another to inflict yourself on the world.
Chappelle appears genuinely hurt and miffed about being labeled transphobic.
Captain Mar-Vell is a rarity in the super hero world because he's a character who has stayed dead ever since he was killed off.
Society is nuts, but that doesn’t put you in charge.
There’s no quick summary for this grand mass of inventive splendor.
"Let's Do the Fink" is a grotesque dance craze parody.
Jayne Meadows, Don Ameche, Kitty Carlisle, and Tom Poston guess which one of three men successfully escaped from a concentration camp.
The legendary actor on her career and current work.
The artist talks about Rhinestone, arguing with Sylvester Stallone, and more.
The late comic's famous impromptu delivery of the infamous joke at the Friars Club on September 29, 2001.
Jessica Kirson and Dillon talk about the popular food YouTuber inadvertently recording a woman's murder next door.
Apatow and Maher on whether humans will merge with machines, Maude Apatow being in Euphoria, and why George Carlin still trends on Twitter.
An interview with the BBC first aired on June 3, 1963.
On behalf of the actor, Littlefeather rejected Brando's Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather.
A naked man made it onto the show just as David Niven finished introducing Elizabeth Taylor.