If you keep up with celebrity gossip or entertainment news, you’ve seen her: the “promising,” talented ingénue who just can’t stay away from drugs or alcohol, who “parties too much,”...
Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe has covered a myriad of topics in her work, ranging from “trickle-down feminism” to tenants’ rights to popular culture—and her first book, Necessary Trouble,...
In her 18th book, writer and Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Staten Island Sarah Schulman takes on the weighty topic of interpersonal conflict, abusive behavior, the “overstatement of...
The term “biopolitics” was first ushered into wide use in a variety of academic fields of inquiry by French theorist Michel Foucault during his lecture series “Society Must Be Defended,”...
Last year, the future arrived. At least, the future as predicted by Back to the Future Part II. And for the most part, it was pretty accurate. We now have video messaging, high quality pocket-sized...
From a Buzzfeed post on empowering pins to a blog post from Ms. Magazine that highlights ten recent “feminist ads,” feminism has started to trickle into marketing, mass culture, and mainstream...
The shortlist for the 2016 Stella Prize was announced on 10 March, with the winner due to be named on next week. As has been the trend (if that word applies to a prize with such a short lifespan to...
“I have always liked men of strong contrasts”, a friend told me once under the frescoed ceiling of a Renaissance villa outside Rome. The place was hosting a contemporary art fair and we were...
With the rise of adult colouring books — colouring books designed for adults, not the other kind of ‘adult’ — has come the rise of animated comedies also targeted at the adult market (think...
2015 has been an interesting and sometimes controversial year in the world of literature in English. (I am not equipped to comment on the rich and varied non-English-language literary scene, so this...
