Sunday papers: Brad Warner

"As a culture have started to drift back towards spirituality in the hopes that it might solve our troubles and bring us the fulfillment we seek. What we’ve forgotten as a culture is that spirituality already let us down. That’s why we became so materialistic in the first place."

On the turntable: Ernest Ranglin, "Gotcha"

On the reel table: "The River" (Renoir, 1951)