The Menu: Bored, Tired People Being Terribly Violent
Warning: SPOILERS. “In her absolutely splendid novel Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson has a character ask whether a given book counts …
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From Glamour to the Grotesque: How the Black Dahlia Became a Sex Icon and Changed the Way We Think About Death
“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”—Edgar Allan Poe WARNING: Graphic photos …
The Scariest Horror Movie of the Year: Don’t Worry Darling
Warning: SPOILERS. I just watched Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde’s recent film, and much to my surprise, I loved it. …
Why Tár’s Queerness Might Be the Most Disappointing Thing About the Film
When I google reviews of Tár, the first one that comes up proclaims, in all caps, “TAR is a MASTERPIECE.” …
When the Classroom Becomes a Minefield
Yesterday, my friend Dr. Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, tweeted that sometimes she wonders about “the vast, silent, unknown would-be networks of …
Do the Writers of ‘The L Word’ Know Actual Lesbians?
Inspired by the sudden influx of queer films, characters, and directors in 1992, film scholar and general badass B. Ruby …
Why There Is Nothing Funny About Don’t Look Up
Spoilers within. The greatest tragedy in Don’t Look Up isn’t the end of the world. It’s the tremendous waste of …
Construction Workers Are Not Disposable
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the news these last few weeks, things are pretty fucked up. Not …
From AIDS to Corona, Silence=Death
In his book The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, American art critic Hal …
If fear is their lifeblood, why didn’t Trump and the Republican Party embrace the Coronavirus?
Do you remember the migrant caravans? How can you not, right? You barely escaped with your life! In 2018 and …
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