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Sinkholes and Sunk Roles
And so it begins: the race to be the Song of the Summer.Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn talks to the New York Times Sunday Book Review about her love of unreliable narrators, Flowers in the Attic, and...
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She’s in the Ether Now: On Moms and Mother’s Day
Jordan Ginsberg: Hi Scaachi. What did you get your mom for Mother’s Day? Also, does your family observe Mother’s Day? I probably should have asked that first.Scaachi Koul: Hi Jordan. First of all,...
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And Now We’re Losing Linden MacIntyre
It’s not a great time to be working in the news production business. (Being a news consumer is another story.) Stories from this week include the Globe and Mail’s writers being asked to produce...
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Pitch Perfect: The History of the World Cup Single
The 1970 World Cup marked the beginning of several traditions, among them English athletic self-pity. The national team was thought to be even better than the one that won the previous tournament, and...
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Becoming Unmothered, Michael Sam’s Big Day, and the Worst Book Review Ever
The worst book review ever.“Meghan O’Rourke has a wonderful word for the club of those without mothers. She calls us not motherless but unmothered. It feels right—an ontological word rather than a...
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Should You Kill Your Babies?
Treatises on the creative process tend to lean heavily on central metaphors; Hemingway said prose was architecture, and Stephen King said it was paleontology. In his new book Creativity, Inc.:...
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Fracking: The Same Old Energy Story, Now With Earthquakes
Don’t be alarmed, good people of North America, but it’s possible the fossil fuel industry has been less than scrupulously careful with the natural world. I know—it’s hard to fathom.The latest news is...
View ArticleWomen-Only Beach, Porto Marina, Egypt
Folds and folds of black cloth dropand suddenly, a woman.I watch frommy rented chaise loungeas she runs to the sealike any other pussy-on-stilts,like me.In the water she opens and closes her legsto let...
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The End Has No End: The Newly Long Lives of One-Season Wonders
Among the many other benefits the golden age of television has brought us, a sense of closure might be the most satisfying. Whatever you think of the particular finales of certain shows, there has been...
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Mad Men Antics, More Gay Kissing, And Sympathetic Vomiting
“The elevator is also a large box. You know who makes boxes? Freemasons.” Sean O’Neal takes on Illuminati “symbolism” in the video of Solange attacking Jay-Z.Dear weirdos, please sell yr games.“Hillary...
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We Must Ban the Bicycle Commute
It was dusk, in high summer, and the light was fading. I sat at the top of the garden, perched on my yellow Raleigh Striker XL, right pedal raised. My father, who had dutifully held the back of my...
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Solange and Jonathan Davis in H.R. Giger’s Backyard
“‘If they knew where they were, I certainly would send in U.S. troops to rescue them, in a New York minute I would, without permission of the host country,’ McCain told The Daily Beast Tuesday. ‘I...
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James Franco: The New Cassavetes?
James Franco made a good movie. I’m as surprised as the next wag, but As I Lay Dying, which Franco co-wrote and directed based on the novel by William Faulkner, is sturdy on its legs, driven by strong...
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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Kill Us—We’ll Starve to Death First
It’s hard to be surprised anymore by the bad news about climate change getting worse. Take, for example, this week’s announcement—independently, from two different research teams—that the West...
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Remembering Farley Mowat
Instead, We Became Cautious Friends, by Anna PorterFarley was as feisty and combative as ever the last time I saw him. It was mid-April, 2014, sunny but still cold in Port Hope, though not too cold for...
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Dance Beside the Spinning Prism: A TCAF 2014 Running Diary
In its 11th year, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival sprawls over a week of readings, panels, interviews, workshops, art exhibits, awards, tangential academic presentations, cartoonist-introduced film...
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How Do I Stop Crying During Oral Sex?
Got a problem that’s got you feeling fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t? Send us your concerns and questions and Unfuck Yourself. Haven’t we all, at some point, been Solange? We go to a party or a...
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Jill Abramson's Tattoo, Rihanna, and the End of Cereal
Man, Rihanna is kind of a jerk!Nope, sorry,Grace of Monaco is not good and no one wants to see it.Jill Abramson is probably regretting that New York Times“T” tattoo on her back right about now.But why...
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The Devolution of the Modern Kitchen
Most of us only encounter professional cuisine in the dining room. Yet the popular image of the back-of-the-house—the kitchen-heart of a restaurant—is crystal clear. Think of any episode of Top...
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