Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes a bloody, playful knife to decades of queer horror tropes. Scott Malia explores how the film turns the slasher genre’s fraught history of sexuality, gender and monstrosity inside out.
In an uncanny nineteenth-century world of artists and doomed expeditions, a nervous husband secretly witnesses the terrifying, miraculous birth of his daughter.
Annie Dillard, who died this month at 81, transformed creative nonfiction by bringing the intensity, music and mysticism of poetry into prose.
In 1933, everyone thought machines would eventually replace people, with one exception. Today, we’re not so sure if there are any exceptions….
A scandalous tale of adultery, voyeurism and revenge, The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) stars dead insects brought uncannily to life in one of cinema’s earliest stop-motion masterpieces.
Here’s to no more wars on Yom Kippur … or ever. The Yom Kippur War was fought by Israel and the Coalition of Arab states
Everyone wants to ask May Pang about the life she shared with John Lennon fifty years ago. She has a few other stories to tell.
Assisted by AI, companies have more options than ever to track employees, minute by minute, keystroke by keystroke. Does this have the desired effect?
Aging may not erase memories so much as blur their boundaries, causing the brain to file details from one experience under another.
“You loved me because you thought I was someone else — someone special, someone magical. You couldn’t see the truth, hidden behind my shimmer of illusions.”
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