Language can be curved, bent, cajoled, broken, reconstituted, made to fit a creators passion. When that's what you want to read, here are some ideas to put up higher on the TBR pile. " The R…
Himesh Patel may be the star of the new Beatles (if they'd never existed) movie Yesterday, but he knows what happens if you don't keep both feet on the ground in a media career: The New York…
Barnes, a U.S. football player turned artist who did such things as "creating album covers for Marvin Gaye, receiving a commissioned by Kanye West and being named the official artist of the …
Maybe because it's easier on certain types of reviewers and critics to ignore clear evidence of suffering and pain? "Oliver and Bishop share a clear appetite for animal flail and gore and de…
Of course, LGBTQ life didn't start in 1969 " but there's not a lot of visual record out there, at least not in public. The director of 1982's Before Stonewall reflects on her archival resear…
Even Star Wars " heck, even Disney " can't protect against Homeland Security. Ahmed made a slight joke about it before explaining that, well, it's simply scary for him to be traveling in the…
Not only has her former label not let the singer buy back her own masters, but Scooter Braun, a powerful music mogul whom Swift calls a manipulative bully, has bought the entire label (likel…
When the poet laureate of Scotland meets the poet laureate of the United States … no, not the start of a joke. "Both strongly believe in poetry as a means of fostering empathy by inhabitin…
Obviously, perhaps, they used to be more common in poetry than they are now " think Wordsworth, Dickenson, and so many more. Now, "exclamation marks are not exactly rare in contemporary poet…
Possibly. "Krantz was the 'queen of the bonkbuster,' those glitzy novels with their gaudy covers and snappy often one-word titles " Scruples, Lace, Rivals " that dominated commercial fiction…
Yikes: "How does a white man from New York City tell a Southern Gothic about a young girl growing up in the Depression Era South, a story inspired by the female author's lived experience? Fo…
Well … it's a first step. A big first step. "When you scale a sizable part of Mount Everest, are you making progress? Yes, but have you reached the summit? No. So we haven't reached the su…
Start with the murder of a social media star, and you unravel a thread that ends up in a particularly unsavory place. "It can very quickly spiral from someone disliking an opinion you have t…
You know you're just sort of renting those ebooks you supposedly bought, right? Well, let the demise of Microsoft ebooks explain it all to you. "The digital bookstore never took off. As of A…
Musicals can help young men, especially (but not only!), come out, and lord knows they're often campy enough … but where are the happy gay musicals? Other than Bill Rauch's happy and gay O…
"Sarli became an instant sex symbol in her feature film debut, in El Trueno Entre las Hojas (Thunder Among the Leaves) in 1958, when she became the first woman to appear fully nude in a main…
As The Atlantic runs a story for the end of Pride Month with the headline claim that "The Struggle for Gay Rights Is Over," perhaps the author of that piece of genius writing needs to chat w…
Guy Gunaratne, whose novel is written in "a pungent first-person patois," explains that of course he speaks differently to an interviewer. "publishing is pretty middle class and I've had to …
Maybe morality started with food. Really. " The New York Times
Jonathan Majors is involved in so much work this year that " and the travel involved with promoting that work " that he has developed a philosophy to deal with it all. "'That's the beauty of…
Rauch, who came into the festival wanting to change the audience and the acting company demographics (and who has succeeded in the latter; the former is stickier, as he also acknowledges in …
Artist Donna Huanca uses semi-nudes to claim space in what she says is still a very male space. "I'm trying to distort the male gaze, to have it be so powerful that it reflects back in a dif…
As Emily Temple notes in LitHub, that 2010 cover was also the first in about 10 years " and as she also says, "Maybe in 2029 it will be a woman! (Just kidding, there definitely won't be maga…
Well, of course it's free " it's a library! " but more than that, "The Free Black Women's Library, a mobile pop-up library and community for black women, is creating spaces [across Los Angel…
Well … it's an important piece of cultural history. "This provocative show about domestic tastes was a landmark in changing national attitudes " and especially the section of it the newspa…