Hugh Hefner is no ‘hero’ – he built an empire on misogyny
We shouldn't let the Playboy founder's death mask the fact that he normalised the sexual objectification of women, argues Claire Heuchan Reading all of the glowing tributes to Hugh Hefner,…
Herman Melville: From obscurity to immortality
When he died at age 72, on September 28, 1891, Herman Melville was so obscure that those who even remembered his literary output presumed that he had passed away many…
The Medieval Tropics
In much of the tropics, insects, heat, and humidity meant that even if texts were written on palm leaves and animal skins, they had to be deliberately preserved or copied…
Fargo, Snap #611 – To The Brink
Documentarian Paul Berczeller examines the case of Takako Konishi, who died in a frozen forest on the North Dakota/Minnesota border looking for the fictional treasure from the Coen Brother’s film…
I Look Like A Narcissist
soprie Sometimes I wonder if my relationships to counselors, therapists and people in authority comes with judgement about how I look. Scratch that, I know it has. But the extent…
Even Jellyfish Sleep
Do jellyfish dream of gelatinous sheep? No one can say.
White Gays
Privilege is a man taking up two seats on the train.
Criminal Podcast: The Gatekeeper
“I keep saying, ‘Where’s the body? Kill someone’,”
How Writing Closed Captions Turned Me off TV For Good
Post-MFA, a writer spends time in the captioning trenches