You know that culture is dead because no one successfully reckons with phones in film and literature. It’s like having westerns without the railroad. Phones and phone culture should be what 90% of movies and books are about.
@biancastone hope i'm not speaking out of turn, but perhaps those top three volumes (Heidegger, Penguin Hölderlin, Mitchell Elegies), the NYRB, and the Penguin notebooks?
May '26
The Running Man // Edgar Wright
The Banishment // Andrey Zvyagintsev
Kippur // Amos Gitaï
Kedma // Amos Gitaï
The Levine-conducted Zeffirelli production of DON GIOVANNI from 1990 was by far the best thing I watched last month.