Patti Smith and Male Bias in Music Criticism
David Masciotra makes the case for a major critical reappraisal of Patti Smith....
Pavement Nymphs and Roadside Flowers: Prostitutes in Paris After the Revolution
C’est peut-être un goût pervers, mais j’aime la prostitution et pour elle-même, indépendamment de ce qu’il y a en dessous. — Flaubert [1] Some years ago I acquired a ...
Thinking About the What-Ifs: A Conversation with Robin Marty About “Handbook for a Post-Roe America”
Eleanor J. Bader speaks to Robin Marty, author of “Handbook for a Post-Roe America.”...
I Embrace You All: Ronald M. Schernikau and the Queer Left
A look at the writing of Ronald M. Schernikau, a unique figure within the German left whose homosexuality inspired a Whitmanesque expansive politics....
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Western?
Krithika Varagur looks at two recent women-centric Westerns and attest to the quintessentially American genre’s enduring vitality abroad....
Popular Feminism: Male Victimhood
Despite the fact that misogyny has long existed as the norm, in the current moment there is an overt claim that masculinity and patriarchy are under threat....
Even This Review Is a Dildo: On Paul B. Preciado’s “Countersexual Manifesto”
RL Goldberg on Paul Preciado’s “Countersexual Manifesto” and the possibility that “all is dildo.”...
Doomed to Survive, but Not Live: An Interview with Joumana Haddad
A Lebanese essayist speaks out against the domination of the body....
The Confessional Peep Show: Pleasure, Pornography, and “The Deuce”
Reading HBO’s “The Deuce” through the lens of academic porn studies....
Her Dark Materials: A Conversation with Vanessa Place
Daniel Elkind speaks to Vanessa Place about her provocative “You Had to Be There: Rape Jokes.”...
A Future That Rests with the Fate of the Oppressed: On Rita Indiana’s “Tentacle”
Kristie Soares looks at sex work, race, and political struggle in the Dominican Republic to understand Rita Indiana’s new novel, “Tentacle.”...
Why Me?: On Tressie McMillan Cottom’s “Thick: And Other Essays”
In “Thick,” black womanhood unites all the essays, yet Tressie McMillan Cottom is not interested in making simple generalizations from her own experience....
