I am haunted by mulch posts. The most recent mulch video came to me in the middle of the night, when I was hours into scrolling through a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. The video was an edit of ...

Lucia Debernardini is a Features writer for Collider, as well as a London-based screenwriter and filmmaker. Her short comedy film Finsta has been showcased at the Aesthetica Film Festival and won the ...

Built on the existential foundations of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and expanded upon in the early 1940s by Albert Camus, absurdism gained traction in the post-war era, centered on ideas around life ...

In a recent post, I discussed the old saying "It is what it is" as a useful adage that could serve us well as a cognitive frame for how we engage worry. I received a lot of interesting feedback, much ...

There’s a sequence late in Boots Riley’s breakout summer hit “Sorry to Bother You” when protagonist Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield, “Get Out”), the once down-on-his-luck telemarketer turned rising ...

From claiming aliens built the pyramids, to lamenting that the government is taking people’s freedom away, to forewarning layoffs, to doing his best to help the underpopulation crisis, to buying ...

Albert Camus, a French-Algerian philosopher, argued in The Myth of Sisyphus that the search for happiness can obstruct true ...

We take photographs as a way to freeze moments in time and to capture the details that get blurred by our unreliable memories. There is little room for interpretation, and this is kind of the whole ...

George Saunders has long been praised in literary circles for his short stories that deftly combine the absurd with the mundane. But now the... George Saunders On Absurdism And Ventriloquism In 'Tenth ...