Children of the Wicker Man
July 15, 2019
Roughly half a century after it first emerged, folk horror is back.
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Fresh Hell
July 12, 2019
This Week in Hell: White Nationalism is this season's hottest wedding theme.
I Feel Better Now
July 11, 2019
Depressed by the burden of life under capitalism? There's an app for that!
Judge Dread
Is the Supreme Court beyond repair?
Back When American Fascism Was Bad
July 10, 2019
On the Cancelling of Charles Lindbergh
Plant Parenthood
Houseplant culture is bad for houseplants.
Women Are from Venus
July 08, 2019
In seeking to unravel it, Three Women props up a simplistic view of women and sex.
Fresh Hell
July 05, 2019
National Lampoon’s Virtual Vacation
Market Values
July 03, 2019
On a snowy, sleety evening last November, inside the auction room at Phillips on Park Avenue, Henry Highley was waiting at a lacquered podium. Potential buyers filed in slowly, closing their umbrellas, unzipping their parkas, and making their way to their seats with their ...
The Power and the Noise
July 02, 2019
Damon Krukowski’s Ways of Hearing poses a compelling counternarrative to typical tech criticism.
Cruising Dystopia
July 01, 2019
A new history of cruising fails to reckon with the material conditions that pushed gay sex from the public sphere.
Fresh Hell
June 28, 2019
House Hunters: International Corruption Edition