Movies “The only observation that feels true is that ‘Tiger King’ is what we watched two weeks into our isolation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 April 2020 “Tiger King” is prestige trash: narratively ambitious but self-aware. True crime is far from...
Movies View Post Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 April 2020 Chailkin and Goode are less interested in getting to the truth of the matter...
Movies Tiger King’s “choice of inspirational comparison – a mockumentary – is telling” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 April 2020 As Goode recently told Rolling Stone, “What fascinated Rebecca and I was the ‘Best...
Books “The plague novel is the place where all human beings abandon all other human beings” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2020 The structure of the modern plague novel, all the way to Stephen King’s “The...
Books “the existence of books, no matter how grim the tale, is itself a sign, evidence that humanity endures, in the very contagion of reading” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2020 In the long centuries during which the plague ravaged Europe, the quarantined, if they...
Babylonian Talmud “the Talmud only makes sense to the reader who has already read it; a first reading of the Talmud only happens during its second reading” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2020 The Talmud is not a book to be read, but a book to do...