Shelf Help: ‘Future Sex’
Re-evaluating our assumptions about sex and partnership. By Peter C. Baker Future Sex. (Photo: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Future…
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Is It a Problem When a Movie About a Woman’s Rape Is Made by Men?
Isabelle Huppert, the star of a new film about the aftermath of a brutal assault, argues female actresses can play a major role in authoring their characters.
How One Organization Is Using Google Maps to Save History in the Middle East
The Diarna Project is a geo-museum that merges maps, photographs, research, and oral histories to preserve the present and bring the past back to life.
Shelf Help: ‘Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans’
Taking the measure of non-celebrity black Republicans, who find themselves a single-digit minority within both party and race.…
What Not to Expect When You’re Expecting in Hollywood
In Alice Lowe’s directorial debut, the longtime writer and actress tells the story of a mother murdering strangers at the directive of her unborn child.
What Eleanor Roosevelt Can Teach Us About Hillary Clinton’s Defeat
The parallels between America’s 32nd and 42nd first ladies are hard to push aside. In 2016, would Roosevelt…
A Conversation With Blair Braverman, Author of ‘Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube’
Two writers with roots in Alaska talk landscape, identity, survival, and the problem with the term alpha male.
How to Make a Film for the Female Gaze
In her latest, director Anna Biller portrays the psychological horror of being a beautiful woman in a patriarchal, objectifying culture.
Writing for Television in the Age of Trump
You know the scene. The woman says no, fighting against the man’s aggression, but he pulls her close…
A Comprehensive List of All the Times Pop Culture Has Totally Predicted Donald Trump
Movies, television, books, and comics: They’re so prescient!