(Please Don’t Let Me Be) Misunderstood
The urge to be seen forms the urgency of Cameron Awkward-Rich’s “Dispatch.”...
(Please Don’t Let Me Be) Misunderstood
The urge to be seen forms the urgency of Cameron Awkward-Rich’s “Dispatch.”...
Home: The Most Dangerous Place for Women
Elaine Elinson reviews Rachel Louise Snyder's "No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us."...
Inside the Fashion Cycle
What the fashion cycle teaches us about aging and disposability....
On Millennial Fluidity; or, a Second Open Love Letter to Nico Tortorella
Jonathan Alexander on Nico Tortorella, gender fluidity, and contemporary culture....
Pointing to the Trap
LARB gender and sexuality editor Eric Newman considers “Females” by Andrea Long Chu....
The Limits of the Bit
Kay Gabriel confronts “Females” by Andrea Long Chu....
The Astonishing and Multiple Achievements of Alice Guy-Blaché
Sarah Gleeson-White reviews a new documentary about a female cinematic pioneer....
Partly Truth, Partly Fiction: 2019 Cinema Revisits the Manson Family
Chloe Lizotte considers the Manson depictions from the summer of 2019, asking what contradictions of representation and historical memory they share....
We Are Monsters: On “Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings”
On “Inside Killjoy’s Kastle,” a look at a lesbian haunted house art project as well as the anti-trans clouds that haunt stereotypes about lesbian identity....
Evening Wood
Paul Morton reviews "Cons De Fée: The Erotic Art of Wallace Wood," out now from Fantagraphics....
Capitalism Is a Mental Illness: “Hustlers,” “The Known World,” and a Failed TV Project
Annie McGreevy on “Hustlers,” Edward P. Jones’s “The Known World,” a failed TV project, and the hustles that sustain us under capitalism....
Auspicious Conflagrations: The Heat of Women’s Anger
Bean Gilsdorf joins the chorus of women speaking about their anger, so that they can do something about it....