Mike Laws

Heat Death – Or, That Time You Were Meant to Discuss ‘1984’ on Its Glorious Anniversary but Had Some Kind of Psychotic Break Instead

When you’re in the second person, who’s the paranoid?

August 15, 2024

Vladimir Nabokov: Heat Seeker

Sixty years of exquisite torture by ‘Pale Fire’

May 29, 2022

Theater archives

Scaling the Action Severely Down, a Black-Box “Trainspotting” Comes Up Aces

July 19, 2018

Arctic Monkeys Jettison Their Guitars and Shoot the Moon

May 11, 2018

Gloves Off

The follow-up to “Goon” lands a lot of jokes — and this time, they sting

August 28, 2017

Only “Humanz”

Diminishing returns, though still plenty of greatness, on Gorillaz’ long-awaited new album

April 26, 2017

Gang Agley: The Sequel to “Trainspotting” Is an Uneven Mess, but That’s Not the Worst Thing About It

March 10, 2017

Das Jackboot: Don’t Sleep on Netflix’s ‘NSU: German History X’

August 3, 2016

In Praise of the Wizard: George Martin, 1926–2016

March 10, 2016

42 Questions, or Why Are You Bingeing on Ed Sheeran?

November 5, 2015