REVIEWS
MELODRAMA-RAMA: WHERE DO I BEGIN?
Katharine Coldiron's new column Melodrama-Rama takes readers on a beguiling tour of the world of melodrama.
A Glance into the Everyday of COVID
This is a No Man is an Island film review written in collaboration with Cinema Escapist, as part of coverage of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Keep an eye out for more!
Yes Look Up
Smart people wouldn’t yell in circumstances like those. They’d lay down their lives to persuade.
Island Nation 2 Encounters Same Issues as Other Recent Taiwanese Historical Television Dramas
Cameos of real-life political figures are sprinkled throughout the show—New Party youth spokesperson Wang Bing-chung, who faced charges of being a Chinese spy in 2017, is among those to appear so far in a role as a TV announcer. Legendary Taiwanese punk rock bank LTK Commune, known for its left-wing, pro-independence political stance, too, appears in the first episode.
TWO GREAT TASTES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER DEP’T.
Once you recognize this pattern, you taste it everywhere.
[REVIEW]: Writing Rejection in “This Little Light of Mine”
Troy Onyango’s "This Little Light of Mine" is one of the shortlisted stories for the 2021 Caine Prize. It continues that tradition established in Onyango’s earlier works – writing explorations of contemporary rejection, isolation and conflict.
DEP’T. OF HEALTH: The Second Pfizer Shot
I had been dreading the second-shot side effects yet also, honestly, kind of looking forward to them.
Haunted by the Ghosts of Taiwan’s Colonial Past
A Review of Green Grass, Pale Fire (草地火焰)
Film Review: Get The Hell Out (逃出立法院)
Zombies infiltrate Taiwan's legislature in this clumsy political satire
CONSUMER AFFAIRS DEP’T.: Nine-Dollar Spaghetti
It’s a beautiful package, and that’s always a big part of my experience as a consumer. I will buy stuff just because of the package at least once, but nine bucks for spaghetti?
An Unexpected Snack Journey
SOME THINGS ONLY exist in fantasy novels, which is the point. You read about them to imagine an experience you could never have in the ordinary world. They don’t all have to be things of awesome or epic character. Lembas, for instance. Through the decades since I first read Lord of the Rings as a […]
