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Power Pop Is Camp

Music
By Mo Troper | November 3, 2021
By Mo Troper | November 3, 2021

Power Pop Is Camp

Mo Troper offers a treatise on the hotly debated subgenre.

Expiring Soon: Behind the Candelabra, and My Love Affair with Liberace and Las Vegas

Film
By Zach Clark | May 16, 2016
By Zach Clark | May 16, 2016

Expiring Soon: Behind the Candelabra, and My Love Affair with Liberace and Las Vegas

On Liberace's birthday, Zach Clark writes about Soderbergh's biopic of the flamboyant entertainer, which is about to leave Amazon Prime.

Rick Moody (the Wingdale Community Singers) Talks George Michael’s Symphsonica

Music
By Rick Moody | March 28, 2014
By Rick Moody | March 28, 2014

Rick Moody (the Wingdale Community Singers) Talks George Michael’s Symphsonica

Here’s a passage from Susan Sontag’s essay of 1964 called “Notes on Camp.” Have you reread “Notes on Camp” recently? It’s well worth doing so, now...

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