2/6/26 – Opening ceremony of Winter Olympics features a spiral design that might bring to mind the Baltic Wheel labyrinth.
The Baltic Wheel labyrinth as defined by labyrinthlocator.org:
2/4/26 – Of Monsters and Men’s song “Ordinary Creature” exemplifies how to use a labyrinth in a lyric:
And a classical labyrinth in the song graphics:
12/1/25 – Stranger Thing‘s Max tells Holly (season 5 episode 4) that the cave is a maze (or was it one of the places in one of Henry’s memories, where’s she’s trapped? I dunno).
11/10/25 – A choice labyrinth from Nobel-winning writer László Krasznahorkai (The World Goes On): “. . . and his wanderings lost their own fanatic contingency; but he went on indefatigably, and then an entire new phase of his wanderings commenced, because he was convinced that it was only through his decision to confine himself to a labyrinth that he could avoid, inasmuch as possible, all of these exact replicas . . .” (p. 9, New Directions 2017 edition, translated from the Hungarian by John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet, and George Szirtes). Now on to p. 29 for the “Universal Theseus” . . .
11/3/25 – A trusted source and high-level informant tells me that the guitar solo on Phish’s “Maze” is one of the best.
11/2/25 – Elsbeth Season 3 Episode 4 (“Ick, A Bod”) is mazy. (The caption didn’t align with the image somehow in the screenshot, but . . .)
10/31/25 – Mountain Xpress reporter Brionna Dallara did a great job on her assignment to navigate three local corn mazes. And “Mazed and confused” is an inspired headline.
10/25/25 – Oliver’s apartment poses challenges for the robot doorman (Only Murders in the Building S5 E9). 🙂
10/19/25 – Virtually every New Yorker piece has a labyrinth reference. 🙂 But this Anthony Lane sentence might be the best. About 16th century playwright Christopher Marlowe’s murder, Lane writes that “the whole affair is a labyrinth” (“Why One Of Shakespeare’s Rivals Is Still Making Trouble,” New Yorker, Sept. 8, 2025). Then, exploring the details, he gives the punchline: “Maybe the labyrinth was all bull.” Ha!
9/18/25 – Musicians, does the first measure ever feel like a maze?
9/7/25 – Hi-fi audio room treatment as labyrinth 🙂 (labyrinth reference 4:10 in)
7/1/25 – Read Borges at work! In season 2, episode 5 of the excellent TV series Poker Face, we find Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) reading Borges as she holds down the fort at an empty office building.
5/28/25 – Mazy math poetry!
4/24/25 – Mazy maize agri-metaphor!
3/14/25 – The kids are alright!
1/8/25 – Severance‘s mazes
The Ben Stiller-directed series places a corporate team (led by Adam Scott’s character, Mark) in endless maze-like hallways–signless, antiseptic, refrigerator-white. Meanwhile, their brains become the real maze as their work-brain has been surgically partitioned from their non-work brain. Scary stuff.
1/8/25 – Labyrinth fiction
Daisy Hildyard’s short story, “Revision,” in the Dec. 23, 2024 New Yorker smartly considers academe and class differences as a labyrinth which its protagonist Gabriel must navigate.
10/28/24 – Mazy ‘do or maze brain?!
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8/1/24–Imagine if Ariadne had given Theseus one of these!
7/22/24—A musical labyrinth, if you’re ready to enter the labyrinth of your “capricious instincts”…
Thanks to Discover Labyrinths for this find:
7/7/24—Rom-com labyrinth
In the new Netflix rom-com A Family Affair, Nicole Kidman’s character Brooke Harwood asks Zac Efron’s character Chris Cole if his Icarus Rush action-hero movies are based on the Icarus myth. Cole is comically clueless, so Brooke explains. “He was the son of Daedalus, who was an engineer who built the labyrinth that King Minos had the Minotaur trapped in.” Cole responds: “Dr. Minotaur was my arch-nemesis in the first three movies.”
A later scene shows Cole on set looking a bit like the blind angel Pygar in Barbarella.
As Nicole Kidman’s character says, “There you go.”
6/25/24—L spotted in Durham
