Merzbow’s Pornoise/1kg [1987] ← a holiday-music palette-cleanser (if needed) • A Woman Has Grown Snarky on Our Girls’ Trips. Can We Stop Inviting Her? ← some heart-felt advice on navigating an awkward social situation that we can all relate to • Those wacky Lacanians over at Why Theory? turn their focus on the lesbian Christmas film • Raiding the palace ← there is something swashbuckling-romantic about the mob swarming the sacked kingdom of a systemic torture-murderer
Review essay on The Name of This Band is R. E. M. ← my heart • C. Ozick, Voices From the Dead Letter Office ← speaking of R.E.M. • Also from Harper’s, How Politics Destroyed Contemporary Art • Barthes’ The Death of the Author