'Red (Taylor's Version)' triumphantly reclaims Swift's music in style
"The recent longing looks fastened on starry-eyed passersby on strolls down College Avenue aren't just an inevitable side effect of impending finals-season-scaries, but almost a sure sign of being enveloped in the autumnal universe of one of the greatest releases in all of music history: 'Red (Taylor’s Version).'"
‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation': Dreary glimpse of pre-9/11 New York City with calculated characters
"Even though the book is primarily about sleep, the characters are nothing short of alive. And (damn her!) despite seeming horrible on the surface, Moshfegh’s characters are somehow entirely relatable. Her gift for chronicling the disturbing dimensions of a character’s ethos and transforming them into a person that feels alive, like someone you may know or may have known or may want to know, is Moshfegh’s greatest power as a writer."
Lorde's 'Solar Power' emotionally captures her spiritual growth
"'Solar Power' is the perfect continuation of Lorde’s complex legacy of cool, though it takes a greater level of introspection to understand what she’s trying to say. While booze-filled nights and quick emotional rushes used to be what inspired Lorde, now it’s everyday life and her closest friends and family — her brother doing a kick-flip or the fact that one of her lovers has the same favorite record as her father is now what moves her."
