From the Desk of M.K. Carr
M.K. CarrA little pretentious, a little curmudgeonly, a lot of cultural analysis
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April 2026: Fantasy & Famesickness
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A full list of books I read this month (including a couple not mentioned in this essay) can be found here. Thanks for reading!
This month I caught a screening of The Player, which falls into one of my favorite genr...
March 2026 Reads: What the body knows
A full list of books I read this month, both new releases and otherwise, can be found here. Doing affiliate links feels a little crazy of me but I’m definitely in a throwing spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks” phase. Ok now for the w...
Paradise, Parables, and predicting the future
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Hulu’s Paradise knows what it’s doing. In the second season, the series has expanded its world beyond the bunker, and has newly introduced mysterious metaphysical elements that tip the plot further into the speculati...
Beware the Ides of March, Timothée Chalamet
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On the Monday morning after the 2026 Oscars, Simone Cromer reposted a quote on X, the Everything App, which read, “defending a person & then experiencing why nobody likes them is very humbling.” She added, “I feel seen.” Sc...
F1's Oscar nomination is this year's Riyadh Comedy Festival
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This season for the first time ever, I have managed before the airing of the Oscars to watch all 10 Best Picture nominees. That unfortunately includes Joseph Kosinski’s F1, a rotten, regressive spectacle masquerading as a c...
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