Ryan J. Meehan

Arts execs take a break from ranking Radiohead vs. Spoon to rank... whatever they feel like.

“The Savage Detectives,” Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s greatest novel, is a kaleidoscopic fictional autobiography—a treatise on youth, love, literature and ...

Wes Anderson has spent a decade as one of America’s most important filmmakers, and the better part of that same ...

Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn (Vertigo Films) -- 4.5 STARS

It’s an almost hallucinatory sense of confusion that pervades Lars Von Trier’s latest feature, the dubiously titled “Antichrist,” in its ...

“Now my charms are all o’erthrown, / And what strenth I have’s mine own, / Which is most faint…” Prospero ...

The Flaming Lips are an American musical institution, and they may be the last of their kind. Not that this ...

A new era of literature began and was buried before the English-speaking world could blink. Roberto Bolaño was the last

There was something different about the resurrection of Dinosaur Jr. even from its abstract beginnings. Before Pavement brought the slacker

“He lived in the Hotel Coma—named perhaps for some founder of the town, some California explorer or pioneer, or for