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Laptop nonfiction

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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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Selected reviews. 

is a writer and editor in Chicago. Their poetry chapbook [Natural Wine](https://dirt.fyi/article/2025/12/natural-wine) is out now from Spiral Editions. 

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Jo Barchi’s Letterboxd

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“I am far smarter and would never relinquish my good sense or peace of mind in favor of a fantasy.”

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21st century true believer

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...and cringe as affective charge

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Mediated cringe...

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"I like Roger Federer because he makes no wrong moves."

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Playing the game

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Consider the monkish collector. 

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Tabloids predicted the future 

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Life after Pierpoint. 

and Daisy Alioto in conversation with Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the co-creators of Industry. 

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“Nobody knows anything”

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Soft power and hard camera angles. 

on the Six Kings Slam, now streaming on Netflix.

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Six Kings Slump

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Color theory in Pluribus. 

on the use of color in Apple TV’s symbolic new thriller. 

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It was all yellow

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