Jane Campion, Dusan Makavejev, and an interview with Leonard Retel Helmrich.

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A new kind of apocalypse emerges in Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel, The Road. Nature here is not an active presence which verdantly reclaims former human habitations, as in a certain apocalyptic tradition which started with Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.

Try this for sheer unexpectedness. After their Christmas dinner at Wentworth Place in Hampstead Village—it is 1818—the fatherless Brawne family and their guest, Mr Keats, settle down to enjoy a parlor game.

By common account, Avatar asks the great question of contemporary art, the one hip-hop has been asking unfailingly for some time: will we put up with a creepy worldview just because the sensuals are cool?