By: Mandy Keifetz

Beneficial microbes: Think of them as Pious Young People.

By: Chris Spurgeon

WALLACE AND GROMIT. Brilliant, thrilling… and so innocent.

By: Deborah Wassertzug

Vegetarian meatballs with black rice, from a restaurant that no longer exists. Where are they now?

By: Evan Narcisse

The videogame REZ — an idealized vision of cyberspace.

By: Jenny Davidson

Powerlifting. Plate it!

By: Allegra Huston

Clothesline: The white sheets scrim the fierceness of the setting sun.

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.