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An outcropping of French theory, postmodernism is most evident in its connection to neoliberalism and our overtly consumerist society.
Everett’s novel is about a Black intellectual who finds commercial success by writing a pandering, parodic work that gets taken at face value.
Neither of the houses in these two books is haunted in the traditional sense; the evil comes from the people and environs that surround them.
A book about art produced by mentally ill psychiatric patients gave the Nazis cover first to eliminate the art, then to move on to the artists.
The Stanford University professor surveys the literary landscape in the shadow of the online giant.
A volume of cultural criticism about Vampira and a new memoir by the creator of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark show how much, and how little, the two have in common.
Nia DaCosta’s re-imagining of the 1992 film Candyman proves more effective because it does not traffic in white voyeurism in its examination of Black trauma.
What could possibly go wrong?
The author returns to the slasher film saturated ground he has trod before to provide a loving homage that leans a bit too heavily on insider knowledge of the genre.
Tuttle’s brand of quiet horror is at once a rejoinder to a genre that leans heavily on masculine aggression and a means to achieve effects more unsettling than an explicit presentation could ever be.