John Edgar Wideman’s Short Story Collection ‘You Made Me Love You’ Challenges Beautifully
John Edgar Wideman’s You Made Me Love You features an array of impressive, thought-provoking stories of considerable depth.
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Mike Ladd and Remi Rough Unite on ‘The Dead Can Rap’
Mike Ladd with producer Rough pulls up a wealth of succulent groove on The Dead Can Rap, nudging the think tank of his polemic poetry onto the dancefloor.
Punk Rabble-Rousers the OBGMs Kick Out the Jams on ‘The Ends’
The OBGMs generate a sound that’s altogether brutal, sensual, raucous, and hungry on The Ends. It’s been long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize.
The One Life of Two Women in Jacques Rivette’s ‘Céline and Julie Go Boating’
Céline and Julie Go Boating transcends its mystic device of hijacked cinéma verité to present an authentic idea of truth in the contrived world of celluloid.
An Interview with The London Souls’ Tash Neal on His Solo Debut ‘Charge It to the Game’
The London Souls’ Tash Neal talks with PopMatters about his solo career, the funk and soul influences in his fiery rock music, and moving beyond the trauma of his life-altering accident.
A Music of Words: Interview with Author Wesley Brown
Black American author Wesley Brown’s prose is assembled like notes on sheet music, his political assertions the staves that backdrop the story.
‘Claudine’ Is a Sweetly Embroidered Drama of Class Struggle
John Berry's Claudine is a compelling watch featuring performances that leave impressions upon the heart long after the film is over.
Chabrol Dives into Time-Warping Fantasy with ‘Alice ou la dernière fugue’
Using Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as the basis for his film, Claude Chabrol essays a woman's metaphysical journey into fear in his fantasy-themed Alice ou la dernière fugue.
JoBoxers Frontman, Actor, and Poet Dig Wayne Walks to a Boxerbeat
Whether a spry youth thrashing about in punk clubs, a writer publishing poetry, or an actor appearing on police procedurals, JoBoxers frontman Dig Wayne’s life has spanned a full artist’s spectrum.
Author Gabriel Bump Advises Young Writers to ‘Embrace the Sluggishness’
Gabriel Bump's protagonist in Everywhere You Don't Belong is an everyman who often mounts his narrative plateau with the discriminating eye of a filmmaker. This interview with Bump has us wondering, should he write a screenplay?
Iller Instinct: An Interview with Hip-Hop Artists Ill Scholars
Ill Scholars MC Mattic and Johnny Madwreck, among hip-hop's newest (though seasoned) progenies, offer an explosive debut album full of heavy, jazz-laden hip-hop.