Readings

|| Scarlett Johansson in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin
‘Own Your Own Ambiguity’: An Interview with Jonathan Glazer

The auteur behind Sexy Beast and Birth discusses his new film, Under the Skin, for which he would covertly film encounters between his star, Scarlett Johansson, and unwitting non-actors from the streets of Glasgow.

||Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
While Professors Starve

John Williams’ classic, Stoner, resonates especially now that the ideals its characters hold—the university as refuge for the sensitive, inquisitive types—have been so thoroughly crushed.

||Kurt Cobain and Chad Channing (right). From the e-book Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989. Photo by Bruce Pavitt.
Kurt Cobain and the Dating Habits Of Eastern European Teenagers

What the arrival of Nirvana's music in the early 1990s meant for one Polish teenager.

So You’ve Decided to Write a Kurt Cobain Memorial Essay

This Saturday will mark the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, which, if played correctly, is an excellent opportunity to write about what Kurt Cobain meant to you. Here are some tips to guide you on your path to Nirvana thinkpiece nirvana.

|| Lagos, Nigeria via Flickr user satanoid
Every Day Is for the Thief

The protagonist at the centre of Teju Cole’s new novel returns to Nigeria for the first time in fifteen years. In this excerpt, the protagonist must decide whether or not it's worth sticking to his principles—something he wrestles with at almost every stage of his journey.