Arts & Living

Despite the controversy surrounding its depiction of violence and loneliness, “Joker” broke box office records this weekend, bringing in $96 million in North America and making the film the highest-grossing October opening of all time. Prior to its official release, the movie was both lauded and criticized, winning the

To say that the movie adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize- winning novel “The Goldfinch” was a disappointment wouldn’t be completely true. The film was everything I expected it to be — a thin, poorly reproduced skeleton of the gorgeous prose that spans Tartt’s 800-page narrative. After

Double albums — albums that are too long, basically — annoy me. They annoy me because there’s always a moment in the album — usually somewhere after the halfway point, after it’s run through all the gems and left only filler — where you find yourself asking, “Is this really still going

Fall semester is in full swing, and with it comes the deluge of papers, problem sets, course readers and lab reports. Whether you’re studying for a midterm or reading “Middlemarch,” the time has probably come for a study spot that is not as nap-inducing as your bed and