We live within a library of antediluvian narratives, with more accessioned every day.

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“Well, I’m not gonna cross-examine you. Say what you wanna say” On Coyote vs. Acme, May December, and laughing at others’ pain — If chatty, personal, occasionally associative criticism, together wit...

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Like Mae West and other classic Hollywood icons, Miss Piggy plays with femininity in delightful, contradictory ways.

No rabbits in here, just a writer-editor doing her best

Autofiction and narcissism in The Invite and I Want Your Sex

In the sixth episode of Apple TV’s Imperfect Women, the soft-spoken housewife Mary (Elisabeth Moss) nervously awaits the judgment of her writing group. She is sharing a work of autofiction titled “Mar...

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In John Carney’s movies, music connects people where conversation cannot. But in his latest, it opens a wound.

In “Yesteryear,” an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.

In the 2006 movie, a ruthless fashion world ground down young ambitious women. The sequel is kinder, more human—and less confident.

A fever dream, Kill Dick is a literary thriller that plunges into the chaos of Los Angeles, where addiction, privilege, and corruption combust.  At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’…

On the internet reception and collective reading of David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary reissue.