"Tar Baby," audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds.
Throwback Thursday isn’t just for cheesy 70s baby photos. It's also for vintage reads that are fun, unique, and straight-up old (but still cool).