Queering the story

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

Julia Ducournau’s Alpha is a shiver-inducing AIDS-adjacent drama

Evidence left at the scene suggests the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was the first pornography-driven political assassination

SOME DAYS IT SEEMS WE LIVE IN A HORRID WORLD where most humans couldn’t give a fig about art. How many people in that world are going to care about a 65-year-old black-and-white movie—one that, for an

Guillermo del Toro’s version of Mary Shelley’s myth

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