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Ms. 45: Abel "The Addiction" Ferrara's 1981 rape-revenge film, starring Zoe Lund as the mute...

at First Things: I Am Not a Witch, the brilliant feature debut of Zambian-Welsh writer...

[Paul] was concerned to emphasize, rather [than fornication], the continuing validity of all social bonds....

at First Things. And I did an extended twitter thread of notes, outtakes, and skating...

So I commemorated the Fifth of November by attending a reading of Equivocation, Jesuit priest...

at First Things: A few years ago, the website You Had One Job posted a...

So Netflix made a show about women's wrestling in the 1980s and I am hard-pressed...

Last week I headed to sunny South Bend, IN for "Trying to Say 'God': Re-enchanting...

So you don't have to! No, this trashy novel by M.L. Rio, set at an...

It is the last dream of children: to be forever untouched. --Audre Lorde, Zami: A...

A little of everything here. Left Bank: Artsy Belgian psychological suspense flick about an injured...

for the University Bookman. Papist polemics, monks with painted eyelids, "apostolic viragoes" and more! You...

In one of the three post-concussion Gay Catholic Whatnot interviews I've done so far, my...

Daisies: A mid-'60s Czech feminist romp, and incredibly enjoyable from the first frame to the...

I just read and loved this stiletto book, which I finally picked up after reading...

A while ago I wrote this ironically-distanced post about how one might defend the all-male...

review at First Things: Anna Rose Holmer's extraordinary new film The Fits begins with a...

Going into this book I knew basically nothing about the beguines--not even how you pronounce...

The two biggest things I left out here (mostly due to space constraints): Fallada always...

...to talk about the Mountain Goats. Once more I did my annual Mountain Goats Holy...

Despite the title, spooky cover, and synopsis (ARE OUR TEENS IN A WITCH SEX CULT?...

every Halloween is self-parody Halloween: Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson's 2015...

for AmCon: I spent last weekend at the Gay Christian Network Conference in Houston, and...

lays it down: I’ve been having lots of weird, really vibrant dreams (I usually don’t...

The Leopard: Burt Lancaster is the patriarch of an aristocratic Sicilian family whose role in...

with tons of fascinating stuff: In the twelfth century, single women began moving in large...

alerts us: ...Like Paglia, Castle’s entrée into the literary tradition of sexual inversion was a...

for AmCon: It’s impossible to describe Amy Winehouse’s voice. Crackly, crimson, fractured and sultry: That’s...

What I've been watching. Mr Skeffington: Two and a half hours of epic Bette Davis....

Just really important for people who care about this stuff. Also adds some complexity to...