By Madeline Lane-McKinley As she walks and talks through hallways and crowded rooms, she waves her hands in the air.… Read more Sorkin’s Women

By Madeline Lane-McKinley As she walks and talks through hallways and crowded rooms, she waves her hands in the air.… Read more Sorkin’s Women
By Grace Prial In 2011, British sociologist Catherine Hakim coined the term “erotic capital,” defined as “a complex but crucial… Read more Exploding “Erotic Capital”; A Review of Happy Hour, A Dream of a Woman, and Objects of Desire
By Johanna Isaacson In 1977 Klaus Theweleit explored what he called “proto-fascist consciousness” by investigating the desires and values that… Read more Abjection and The New Soldier Male in “Daniel Isn’t Real.”
By Johanna Isaacson (Tons of Spoilers!) We are in a golden moment of Korean anti-capitalist culture. Squid Games has shown us the… Read more The Tactless Soul at Work: Affective Insurgency in “Office”
By Sarah Brouillette Beautiful World, Where Are You is a literary romance novel that follows two attractive couples casually dating, figuring… Read more The Consolations of Heterosexual Monogomy in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Michael Truscello “It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly… Read more Subway Horror Cinema and Infrastructural Brutalism
By Madeline Lane-McKinley From the outset Feel Good is a deliberate, at times quite earnest take on the romantic comedy,… Read more Feeling Good in ‘Feel Good’
By Sophie Lewis Back in 2019, our beloved editor Sophie Lewis wrote a never-published take on the unconscious racial-familial politics… Read more “She Wants Your Children”
By Jennie Gilman As if the murder of Sarah Everard by Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens [1], was not evidence… Read more RIPPER NATION: Serial Killer Reproduction and Viewer Complicity in Netflix’s The Ripper
By Johanna Isaacson With its blazing guns and wide western expanses, no one would guess that the Brazilian horror western Bacurau is… Read more Mutual Aid as Self-Defense in Bacurau