Adam Nayman
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 27, 2026
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- Jul 22, 2026
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Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars Is an Oddly Trad Fantasy (opens the original)
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“I never want to repeat myself, and all my films have been on the money,” said Sir Ridley Scott, promoting his new film, The Dog Stars. “I’ve been ahead of the game frequently, and if you’re ahead of the game, you’re an influencer. So I’m not a filmmaker, I’m an influencer.” This quote is certainly on the money, insofar as it exemplifies its source’s robust—some might say megalomaniacal—sense of self-regard. If there’s one prerequisite for any filmmaker determined to produce mega-budget epics at
Jane Schoenbrun’s Love Letter to Teen Horror (opens the original)
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“It’s not like years ago,” croons Michael Stipe on R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming,” the spare, piano-driven ballad that brings the band’s 1992 album, Automatic for the People, to a melancholy crescendo. The song’s crystalline reminiscence of teenage horseplay is uncommonly personal and precise, like Proust by way of Don McLean. “They cannot see me naked,” the narrator sighs coyly, treading water between innocence and experience. A stripped-down arrangement of “Nightswimming” opens director Jane Schoenb
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass Is Beautifully Implausible (opens the original)
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Thirty years ago, on a not very special episode of Friends (“The One With Frank Jr.,” for the record) Ross and Rachel swapped “Celebrity Freebie” lists: top fives of famous people with whom they would each choose—and be allowed by their partner—to have consequence-free sex. Ever the culture vulture, Ross opted for Isabella Rossellini, leading to the most incongruous Blue Velvet shout-out in prime-time history. Rachel, meanwhile, chose Chris O’Donnell, John F. Kennedy Jr, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sting,
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