By: Gordon Dahlquist

FULL METAL JACKET

By: Flourish Klink

The music is pretty damn enjoyable; and the music is not at all the point.

By: Devin McKinney

The Beatles’ butcher cover: Look forever and you’ll never understand.

By: Chelsey Johnson

The platypus and the echidna: reclusive, ornate, mysterious monotremes!

By: Alix Lambert

Julien Temple’s ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS — David Bowie at his most villainous and romantic.

By: Brian Berger

How Richard Linklater’s SLACKER examines historical memory.

By: Joshua Glenn

The SCOUT HOW BOOK — it’s so inviting, yet there’s no way in.

By: Jessamyn West

Slow motion botany for inhospitable locations and inattentive gardeners.

By: Mimi Lipson

The 1973 Sears Roebuck Spring/Summer catalog — family album of a parallel childhood.

By: Devin McKinney

Shona Laing’s WHISPERING AFRAID — inspired by a teen’s infatuation with Henry Fonda.

By: Erik Davis

An album by one of the first boomer trailblazers of mystic India.

By: Gordon Dahlquist

FELLINI SATYRICON: We’ve eavesdropped our way to an alien world’s reckoning.

By: Mark Kingwell

NORTH STAR SNEAKERS & GWG JEANS. Canadian coolness.

By: Robert Wringham

Hipster cynicism fades on THE LYKE WAKE WALK.

By: Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern on PENELOPE and CHAVEZ RAVINE