In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off from the modern world.

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Medium for some colorful jewelry: eight letters.

Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?

Nausea can be a sign that labor is approaching, but it’s also a sign of so many other things—reading the news, for example.