Essay

Every January 25, I ask myself the same question: if Vladimir Vysotsky hadn’t left us in 1980 at just 42,...

January 25, 2025

Eternal Lovers, Endless Nights: “Only Lovers Left Alive” (2013/Film)

This article is based on notes made in 2016, 2018, and 2024. Screen grabs via screenmusings.org. In the late months...

January 22, 2025

I was 16 years old when I first heard Victor Luferov’s song Meeting (Встреча). I had discovered a website created...

January 18, 2025

Monteverde’s ability to take something so small, so ordinary—a mother stepping into sunlight—and make it feel sacred.

January 14, 2025

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There’s a certain familiarity in the way writers are drawn to alcohol—an orbit of longing, self-doubt, and solace.

January 13, 2025