Over at the Forward, Josh Nathan-Kazis posts
"Lipa Schmeltzer's Uncanny Valley." I don't agree with much of what he writes, but any article that includes the following sentence deserves a mention here. "If Avraham Fried is Elmer Fudd, vaguely nodding towards mainstream pop, Schmeltzer’s “Hang Up The Phone” is the Japanese robot, down at the valley’s spookiest depths."