Arts & Ideas Podcast: Marriage
Why marry? Jane Austen began her novel Pride and Prejudice with the observation "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must…
Cuir, moustaches, muscles
Bienvenue dans l’univers sulfureux de Tom of Finland.
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Laila El-Haddad
The Gaza Kitchen
Distributed Blackness
Winner, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association Winner, 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award, given…
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I never chose to have gleep
The Great Women Artists Podcast: Marina Warner on Eve, Lilith, Athena, Medusa
A writer, lecturer, author of almost 40 books, and former president of the Royal Society of Literature, Marina Warner, according to the New Yorker, is an authority on things that…
So You Think You’re the Main Character – Electric Literature
It makes perfect sense that, at the height of quarantine, teenagers began inserting themselves into other, more compelling narratives. For the past year and more, as coronavirus cases waxed and…
Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos
All the stories in humanity’s history that have had a lasting impact on us, from the Bible to Greek myths to the X-Men franchise, have been rich in meaning beyond…
Generational Wars Serve No One
In the end, there is only one winner in a generation war, and it’s not millennials or boomers or Gen Z—it’s capitalism. These essentialized, whitewashed stereotypes impede the intergenerational organizing…