'Lake Success' Is a Picaresque Journey to Nowhere
Gary Shteyngart's state of the nation satire about a billionaire on the run doesn't tell us much about anything.
04 Oct 2018
Gary Shteyngart's state of the nation satire about a billionaire on the run doesn't tell us much about anything.
In a typically absurd twist of Trump politics, England's reggae-pop hitmakers are back on the radar. Time to dig back into music's past.
David Patrikarakos has written an engaging narrative that covers the activities and surroundings of eight 21st century social media crusaders.
The status quo of the past 30 years facilitated a massive transfer in wealth and public resources away from the average American and into the hands of a wealthy minority; a radical coup if ever there was one. Yet it was achieved democratically. A response to Madeleine Albright's Fascism: A Warning.
As discussed with PopMatters, in Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, Fea finds long roots in answering his questions, but he clears a path forward, too.
Among other critiques of identity politics, Haider believes that we each can slip between identities at will. Indeed, it's a universal human condition.
How the allure of newness is leading Kanye West astray.
A sense of bitterness remains for those of us mourning the loss of this final great literary lion of the 20th century.
Get Out's Sunken Place is not at a distant location -- it subsists and persists in the here and now. Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Bill Cosby should know this.
These hard-hitting investigative reporters deliver the last (for this month, at least) word on Trump's mysterious infatuation with Putin.
Jenkins, founder of One Peoples Project, tells PopMatters that contrary to the fear many Americans feel, it's actually life-affirming to talk about fascism and racism.
With the recent release of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Steve Almond talks in-depth about the US president whom most parents wouldn't even let on the playground -- and about his beef with the American left.
The return of Roseanne brings with it some complicated political baggage -- and it brings Dan Connor back from the dead.
Kevin Young painstakingly presents the history of hoaxes and why we keep falling for the same old shtick.
The recent release of The Rub of Time once again marks Martin Amis amongst our most proficient critics, seemingly without peer in terms of his range and scope.
The next film from Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer director Maxim Pozdorovkin treats us to Russian propaganda about the United States.
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