I should have listened to Anne Elizabeth Moore.
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The Body Horror of Illness, Poverty, and Time
I Should Have Listened to Anne Elizabeth Moore
Suzette Smith
Suzette Smith is the arts & culture editor of the Portland Mercury. Go ahead and tell her about all your food, art, and culture gripes: suzette@portlandmercury.com. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, and Letterboxd.
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Fear Will Never Conquer Us
Scenes from This Weekend’s Hollywood Transit Vigil for Three Heroes Who Stood Against Hate
Scenes from the Hollywood Transit Memorial for Three Brave Heroes
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Scenes From The Hollywood Transit Memorial
Suzette Smith At 6:15 PM on a 90-degree Saturday afternoon the Hollywood Transit Center already felt full to the brim. The square lawn of grass, facing NE Halsey, overflowed with mourners, filling the bus channels behind it and the tiers of stairs connecting to the MAX train platform. Hundreds sat or stood in a wide […]
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Men Without Women’s Dick Lit
Men’s Insecurities Are Exposed in Murakami’s Latest
Men’s insecurities are exposed in Murakami’s latest.
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Comics Artist, Cyclist, Activist
Eleanor Davis Took a Bike Ride That Awakened Her to Injustice.
Eleanor Davis took a bike ride that awakened her to injustice.
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Comics Artist Dash Shaw On My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (and Q-Tips)
I saw Dash Shaw’s animated feature film My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea at last year’s Portland International Film Festival, where I was pleased to see the personable humor and torsion of reality that I always expect from his work. Shaw is a well-respected indie comics artist whose graphic novels, like Bottomless Belly […]
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Talking with Dash Shaw About My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
And Q-Tips.
And Q-tips.
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The Book of Joan: Oh, Dear
Lidia Yuknavitch’s Sci-Fi Novel Misses the Mark, and We All Go Flying into the Void
Lidia Yuknavitch’s sci-fi novel misses the mark, and we all go flying into the void.
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The Emotional Packrats of Hirokazu Koreeda’s After the Storm
It’s hard to watch someone gamble until they bottom out, so I was relieved, in After the Storm, to find that the scenes of failed novelist Ryôta (Hiroshi Abe) borrowing and losing money were frustrating but brief. Divorced, working as a private investigator, and estranged from most of his family thanks to his parasitic money […]
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This Is All You Should Read Before You Go See Your Name
The highest-grossing anime in box-office history, Your Name has many hailing the film’s director, Makoto Shinkai, as the new Hayao Miyazaki. Shinkai has been working towards this for a while, and boasts a nice assortment of creative sci-fi dramas on his resume, all with emo band titles like The Place Promised in Our Early Days […]
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Slow Your Roll, Iron Fist—We’re Talking Esoteric Comics With Ron Regé Jr.
Also Discussed: Wonder Woman’s Goddess Origins and the Holy Grail
Also discussed: Wonder Woman’s goddess origins and the Holy Grail.