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Ozempic: Reshaping Desire Since 2023
Ozempic is a drug against addiction. Is it also a drug for … virtue? wonders political scientist Krzysztof Pelc.
Cultural Studies
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
What Was the Sitcom? On Grace Lavery’s “Closures”
Isabel Bartholomew reviews Grace Lavery’s “Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom.”
Here Be Monstrous Architects: On Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing’s “Horror in Architecture”
Stephanie Schoellman reviews Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing’s “Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition.”
I Would Like to Know Her: On Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers”
Leigh-Michil George reviews Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.”
How Long Will I Be a Prisoner? On Alison C. Rollins’s “Black Bell”
Diana Arterian reviews Alison C. Rollins’s “Black Bell.”
All of This, My Dear Sir, Is Surrealism: On Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters”
Anna Levett reviews Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters.”
Bad Dad Jokes: On Lucas Mann’s “Attachments”
Adam Fleming Petty reviews Lucas Mann’s “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performance,” rooting his analysis in his personal experience.
Dads in the Wild: On Lucas Mann’s “Attachments”
Margo Steines reviews Lucas Mann's “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances.”
A Transatlantic Metamorphosis: On Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists”
Ian Ellison reviews Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain.”
The “Nacirema” Dream: The Story of an Asian American Studio
Jonathan van Harmelen reveals a lesser-known, unappreciated history of American film through the work of Asian American makers and studios.
I Understand Thee, and Can Speak Thy Tongue: California Unlocks Shakespeare’s Gibberish
In honor of National Talk Like Shakespeare Day, Frank Bergon writes about Shakespeare’s possible use of the Basque language.
Actual Real Life: On Curtis Hanson’s “8 Mile”
Jayson Buford revisits Curtis Hanson and Eminem’s “8 Mile.”
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