“I wanted to stimulate people”: Canadian playwright Brad Fraser on provocation, the theatrical establishment, and his new memoir
“I realized the adult world was every bit as fucked up as anything else."
“They don’t see it until they see it”: Cheryl Thompson on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kevin Hart, and the legacy of a complicated literary figure
The through-line in Thompson’s book involves a historical inability on the part of Western culture to see Black people as fully human.
Running in the family: Jordan Abel’s multimedia, polyvalent memoir addresses issues of identity and cultural heritage in the face of intergenerational trauma
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Abel has crafted a cross-genre work that addresses questions of identity and the ways we are affected by past hurt.
Christopher Sharrett on neoconservatism in the 1980s and ’90s horror film
Upending the radical vision of much 1960s and ’70s American horror cinema, the following decades saw a reactionary retrenchment, argues the academic and critic.
Critic Darryl Jones on the history and appeal of a disreputable genre
The Irish critic writes that horror, like all avant-garde art, operates at the extremes and tests its recipients’ tolerance levels.
Carol J. Clover and gender subversion in the modern horror film
Clover codified the notion of the final girl, but her 1992 text on the modern horror film extends her inquiry further than just that.
On regarding the lives of others: Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag
Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag presents its subject as a mass of contradictions.
Finding the words: Sister Language by Christina Baillie and Martha Baillie
Christina Baillie and Martha Baillie have created a unique dual text that examines the linguistic manifestations of schizophrenia.