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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 ...

The Power and the Noise

Will Meyer

July 02, 2019

Damon Krukowski’s Ways of Hearing poses a compelling counternarrative to typical tech criticism.

A Fan’s Notes

Kate Wagner

June 20, 2019

In the Jon Bois era, the specious divide between sports and art can no longer stand.

End of Rand

Richard A. Greenwald

June 11, 2019

Have we witnessed the last gasp of “objectivist” piety?

The Corporate Logo Singularity

Rachel Hawley

June 07, 2019

The childlike nature of corporate branding isn’t a random trend, but part of the mindset that consumers ought to be treated like children.