James Dobson, Godfather of Child Abuse, Finally Dies
The radical cleric leaves behind a legacy of sanctified torture, destroyed children and broken families.
Second Glance: Kenneth Branagh’s Twisty, Giddy ‘Dead Again’
All of which is to say, Branagh is having a very good time showing off. So is Frank, whose bonkers narrative takes a giant, surprise turn around the 75-minute mark,…
Reimagining Place: Setting as Convergence
Something useful that writers can do when setting fiction in a real place is to leave. Choosing projects that allow us to write about a place after we’ve moved away…
Q&A: Jenny Molberg of Ploughshares
Emerson College recently named Jenny Molberg editor in chief of Ploughshares, the celebrated quarterly journal that has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, for more than fifty years. Molberg, the author…
The Written Image: A Radical Alteration, Women’s Studio Workshop
A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making, a new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., celebrates the…
Writers Mix Movies and Memoir
It can sometimes feel like films narrate our lives. “Everyone has a movie that has mattered to them in their life,” says writer and editor Ryan W. Bradley, who selfishly “wanted…
Arts Funding in Peril
This spring the Trump administration walloped the arts community when it slashed federal funding for literary arts and culture, taking major steps to dismantle the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),…
You Can’t Go Home Again
Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile
How payment networks control the definition of acceptable sex in videogames
We speak to adult industry researchers and Stripe alumni about Steam and Itch.io's NSFW content cull
Alistair Mitchell, 61: Lawyer whose calling was knocked into him at a riot
Alistair Mitchell, 61: Lawyer whose calling was knocked into him at a riot Saturday March 02 2019, 12.01am GMT, The Times Private Eye once described Alistair Mitchell as “the only…