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Sister Lovers: The Curse of Queerness in ‘Ginger Snaps’

By Noah Berlatsky

The tragedy of Ginger Snaps, in fact, is that patriarchy makes queerness unspeakable and unthinkable. As a result, the film can imagine no future for women in patriarchy other than death…

October 8, 2020 in Film & TV.

Impossible Animals: Bernard Heuvelmans and the Making of Cryptozoology

By Daniel Elkind

Impossible animals—animals that do not, should not, or cannot possibly exist—have been part of human iconography and myth from the art of cave paintings to medieval bestiaries. Their absurd anatomies have been used to symbolize and subjugate, to parody and portend…

October 6, 2020 in Occult & Paranormal.

The Jewel in the Skull: ‘James Cawthorne: The Man and His Art’

By Richard McKenna

Stuff has to happen when it has to happen, I suppose. Back in the summer of 2018, I’d pre-ordered a copy of James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art, but by the time it was released, the family health issues that had been increasingly dominating my life over previous years had consumed it completely…

September 17, 2020 in Art & Illustration.

Portals and Presences: The Surreal Landscapes of Hipgnosis

By Michael Grasso

“Album covers… defined you,” says Hipgnosis founder Aubrey “Po” Powell in his “Welcome to Hipgnosis” history in 2017’s Vinyl . Album . Cover . Art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue, a 300 plus page full-color hardcover monster that reproduces the collective’s entire album cover output from 1967 to 1984…

September 16, 2020 in Art & Illustration.

A Coke and a Smile: Tsunehisa Kimura’s ‘Americanism’

Unlike his younger compatriots Shusei Nagaoka, Hajime Sorayama, Eizin Suzuki, and Hiroshi Nagai, who broke into the American illustration market with glistening airbrushed futures and breezy, pastel-colored beach scenes, Tsunehisa Kimura’s output was absurd, darkly surreal, and often apocalyptic…

September 15, 2020 in Art & Illustration.

“God Likes Winners”: Catharsis and Community in 1970s Disaster Movies

I started watching (mostly rewatching) disaster movies old and new about a week into lockdown, which I suppose makes perfect sense. The genre turns on spectacle and catharsis, but it also pacifies: no matter how bad the real world gets, it could always get worse—so be grateful that it’s not worse…

August 28, 2020 in Film & TV.

Millennials Are the Greatest Generation: Ira Levin’s ‘A Kiss Before Dying’

By Noah Berlatsky

Tom Brokaw popularized the term “The Greatest Generation” in 1998 to describe the Americans—and especially the American men—who survived the Depression and fought against Nazism in World War II. Brokaw saw this cohort in valedictory, heroic terms…

August 25, 2020 in Books & Literature.

The Rot at the Root: Activism and Agency in ‘Captain Planet’ and ‘FernGully’

By M.L. Schepps

At the break of dawn upon the beach, a thousand representatives of the “Female Planet”—ranging from white-clad Canbomblé, damp in honor of the ocean goddess Yemoja, to realtors from Anchorage—raised mirrors to the pallid sky, seeking to reflect the light of their hope towards the sprawling Riocentro Convention Center…

August 6, 2020 in Film & TV.

“A New Self”: The Radical Imagination of Ernest Callenbach’s ‘Ecotopia’

By Michael Grasso

Visualizing a better world has never been more important, or more difficult. The promise of utopia—or at least a world that places its values on health, happiness, and lovingkindness—has been an object of pursuit for philosophers, theologians, and regular folks since the dawn of human civilization…

August 4, 2020 in Books & Literature.

All Tomorrow’s Spaceships: Future World Orchestra’s ‘Mission Completed’

By Richard McKenna

Sometimes it’s in ephemeral fragments of the culture that time travel lurks. We learn to tune out the looming monoliths of the zeitgeist the same way we learn to tune out the sky: its ubiquitousness would otherwise be oppressive…

July 16, 2020 in Music & Sound.

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