Catching Up on Veronica Mars
Like Veronica Mars fans the world over, I waited with bated breath when creator Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign challenging fans to pay for the movie he’d been promising since the show...
Category: Arts & Literature
Review: Spring Breakers
Hieronymus Bosch is alive and well and living in Florida, bitches! He’s melding slobbering hunks of flesh into micro bikinis Brian Yuzna style. Two finger smiles, porn star tongues-this could be an...
The Daylight Gate: Jeanette Winterson Goes Horror
Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate. London: Arrow, 2012. Acclaimed English novelist Jeanette Winterson’s latest book is something of a curiousity. The book has been published by Arrow in...
Cruel Britannia: A closer look at Gangster No.1.
London 1999. In the shadow of the Millennium Dome, men with faces as rough as Bethnal Green tube station laugh and leer at the camera. These monsters in bow ties are grotesque; their mirth rains like...
Who’s Afraid Of the Reaper? Death on American TV
One of the most critically acclaimed episodes of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was season five’s ‘The Body,’ about the death of Buffy and Dawn’s mother Joyce. In a television show...
A Non-Zionist Jewishness? Judith Butler’s Parting Ways
Judith Butler, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism. Columbia UP, 2013 Having made her name in the early 90s with Gender Trouble, a densely-written look at the ways in which gender is...
Review: Loud Hands
Loud Hands (The Autistic Press, 2012) is a revolutionary anthology curated by autistic people and filled with autistic voices. It takes narratives back from the neurotypical community and challenges...
What’s writing worth?
There's been a brouhaha on the Internet of late, over the issue of whether freelance writers for magazines, journals, and internet media outlets should be paid for their work. (No one is yet...
Celebrating Deaf Culture: Switched At Birth’s All ASL episode
ABC Family’s Switched at Birth has already been making television history with the heavily integrated use of American Sign Language (ASL) in its episodes; revolving around the lives of Deaf, hard...
Elementary, My Dear Joan Watson: An Egalitarian Sherlock?
CBS’ Elementary has been saddled with the difficulty of distinguishing itself from the beloved BBC Sherlock, and, in a sense, justifying its existence. Sherlock fans were incensed when the rival...