review

  • Despair Deserved Better

    Despair deserved better in Volume 11 of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, Endless Nights. She deserved the narrative thread that Delirium got to connect the varied and convoluted thoughts of its characters. Compared to the stories of their Endless siblings, Delirium and Despair have the most unconventional and abstract structures. I’m not going to say

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  • The Unrequited Android

    CAUTION SPOILERS! Kara at Zlatko’s, Connor in the police archives, and Markus in Jericho. All of my androids are dead. They never got to the camps or did they pacify the police with a song. This past July, Sony Playstation Plus offered Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human as a “free” download (“Free” in quotes because

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  • Warhol in Three D

    The Whitney’s Warhol exhibit gave me a new perspective on his work.  Up until “Andy Warhol— From A to B and Back Again,” I had only considered his art in two-dimensions – in books, in magazines, and on stark white walls. The current Whitney exhibit got me to consider him in three. Two labels in

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  • There are several editions of these stories. I saw on Amazon more recent editions split the “Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse” and “Black Fairy Tale” stories into two separate books. The edition I read had both and a third story, “Yuna,” collected in a single volume. “Yuna” splits the book into the “Summer” side and

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