CAN’T WE DO BETTER THAN THIS?

This has been one of the shabbiest movie summers in memory – a stretch as desolate as a beach closed by the Board of Health. Still, out of habit, people make the trek, and while remaining fully dressed poke at the debris that’s washed up. There’s always something to be admired in this old boot or that chunk of scrap metal, decomposing amid the syringes and jellyfish. – The Nation