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Trivial Pursuits

Marlowe Granados

August 30, 2019

From Ann Harding to Kay Francis—the romantic politics of the adventuress.

To Really Discover America

Matt Hanson

August 23, 2019

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s radical poetics at one hundred

Let Us Compare Mythologies

John Semley

August 19, 2019

The pathos of Tarantino’s historical interventions.

The Fleshly Frontier

John Semley

August 02, 2019

High Life embraces the beauty, terror, and shit of material existence.

SCUM Rising

Jeremy Lybarger

August 01, 2019

The long afterlife of Valerie Solanas

Hard Time for the Hardcore

Nick Pinkerton

July 26, 2019

Beyond entertainment we enter the rarified realm of art as ordeal, cinema as self-administered punishment.

All About My Mother

Philippa Snow

July 19, 2019

In two new books, Kate Zambreno reckons again with the loss of her mother.

Hell is Other Internet People

Josie Thaddeus-Johns

July 17, 2019

On "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by Gretchen McCulloch

Children of the Wicker Man

Edward Millar,  John Semley

July 15, 2019

Roughly half a century after it first emerged, folk horror is back.

I Feel Better Now

Jake Bittle

July 11, 2019

Depressed by the burden of life under capitalism? There's an app for that!

Women Are from Venus

Nora Caplan-Bricker

July 08, 2019

In seeking to unravel it, Three Women props up a simplistic view of women and sex.

Market Values

Cody Delistraty

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 ...