Rhian Sasseen

What to do with the art of monstrous men?

Claiming authorship in the age of the internet.

The forward-thinking sci-fi of Izumi Suzuki.

Browsing the literature of the grocery store

It’s Olympics time again. That means we must prepare to tune in for what every four years briefly turns into America’s favorite blood sport: figure skating! It’s the perfect sport for Americans who want to watch women in sequins make each other cry. My fellow fans, I ...

By now, the lines have been drawn. A disturbing number of responses to Dylan Farrow’s February 1 New York Times blog concerning the alleged sexual abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her father, Woody Allen, have run the gamut of rape culture apologias. Her memories ...

Does female sexuality exist? If we understand “female sexuality” to be something belonging to women, a bodily and mental expression and experience of desire, selfhood, and pleasure not dependent on a patriarchal conception of what is called “femininity”—then no, no, it ...

Not too long ago, I was an unpaid intern. For English majors, this is not particularly unusual, the depressing 2013 realization of what Jim Frederick predicted in his 1997 Baffler essay “Internment Camp.” We have reached the point at which a flurry of lawsuits are necessary ...