Streaks
Real life husband and wife Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming wrote, directed, and star (as husband and wife) in The Anniversary Party, an ensemble piece about the excesses of Hollywood. Carl F. Gauze wonders where his invite was.
What can possibly make a terminally boring accountant not only interesting, but a cause celebré among family, friends, and co-workers at a French condom factory? Coming out of The Closet, naturally! Carl F. Gauze came -- err, went -- out to see the French film farce, and recommends that you come out, too.
Manil Suri's debut novel, The Death of Vishnu explores the facts and foibles of class struggles and the quest for spiritual enlightenment through the eyes of a dying apartment building handyman. Terry Eagan explores the rich and unusual novel.
Jerusalem Delivered/Gerusalemme Liberata
Why is Terry Eagan reviewing the new edition of Torquato Tasso's sixteenth century epic poem? Read the review and find out why he compares Tasso to Chaucer and Shakespeare.
In Perspective: All Hail Carcass!
A legion of death metallers pay tribute to one of their progenitors with Requiems Of Revulsion: A Tribute to Carcass. Matthew Moyer puts the band's career and the tribute album "In Perspective."
You'll laugh, you'll cry, it'll touch your heart. Yes, it's another trip into the Ink 19 virtual mailbag.
In Perspective: Diving Into the Deep End
Though they went unheralded nationally, The Swimming Pool Q's were one of Atlanta's most beloved and acclaimed bands 20 years ago. Now their debut album, The Deep End, has been reissued, and James Mann puts the expanded album -- and the Atlanta "scene" -- "In Perspective."
Tom Spanbauer's In the City of Shy Hunters may tell the tale of a young gay man coming of age during the AIDS epidemic of the '80s, but Terry Eagan warns that this epic novel should not just be relegated to the "Queer Fiction" ghetto.
Fulfilling a teenage dream, Phil Bailey picked up the new issue of Playboy, featuring Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle in her birthday suit. No, we won't scan the photos for you.
For Matthew Moyer, it's the expressive faces that Graham Annable draws in his new graphic novel, Grickle, that make the book so appealing and real.
Alex Robinson's Box Office Posion just won him the comics industry's Eisner Award for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition." Julio Diaz expains why that award is so richly deserved.
