Rachel Khong
Rachel Khong
Recent Stories
Goats spurn the milk of love
A braver critic might write this in first-person, since it’s only fair: The Mountain Goats’ “Get Lonely” persists in the tradition of last year’s “The Sunset Tree”, with John Darnielle getting personal again, shifting narration from third to first person.
Jackson
If Peggy and Becca turn up, a dozen kabobs are bound to rematerialize as pulpy orange puke. Ever since I roared out of town in my dad's company car with a walletful of pilfered twenties, nothing's changed but the look of things. Jackson's park is...
Cage gives his all to play half of a thief
For a box office hit, "Matchstick Men," an adaptation of the Eric Garcia novel, is weirdly, and refreshingly, different. Incorporating OCD, con artistry, tuna fish, and adolescence as effortlessly as, well, stealing candy from a baby (or money from the...