Reviews
‘Flow’ is a beautiful low-budget animated feature
Part of the beauty of Flow, a Latvian film that won this year's Oscar for best animated feature, is its simplicity. In an age of overstuffed blockbusters, this is a straightforward tale. There's a flood. A black cat…
‘Shrinking’ depicts the problems of aging millennials
Apple TV+'s Shrinking revolves around Jimmy Laird, a psychologist who responds to his wife's sudden death by getting very involved—to unconventional extremes—in his patients' lives. The series also encompasses…
A novel about pronatalist government programs
In an effort to boost birth rates, South Korean authorities start moving select families into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments. There, below-market rents await married couples who already have one child and pledge…
‘The Agency’ is a CIA spy thriller
In The Agency, human lives and personalities are tools to be abused by the state. The Showtime series stars Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, and Richard Gere as London-based CIA agents running complex undercover…
‘In Slavery’s Wake’ celebrates black Americans’ resistance
The National Museum of African American History and Culture illuminates the brutalities of slavery and Jim Crow while also celebrating black Americans' political, intellectual, and cultural achievements. The D.C. museum…
What if Native American tribes had gotten their own state?
The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, by Donald L. Fixico, University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pages, $34.95 In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court rejected Oklahoma's…
Prime Roots is making fungi-based deli meat alternatives
Sales of meat alternatives dropped between 2021 and 2023, according to the Good Food Institute. A big problem is price. The closer companies get to mimicking meat, the more obvious the stubbornly high premium becomes. Prime…
A Florida museum brings pirate history to life
At the entrance to the St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum, guests are greeted by a two-page broadsheet published in London in 1605, now locked behind a panel of protective glass. It is a royal decree from King James I…
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