The Fantasy of the Femme Fatale
I couldn’t help but see these women-led stories as missed opportunities.
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The Thread: Look What You Made Me Do
Can a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Kill Bob
Kill Bill is revolutionary because it disrupts both content and genre, beautifully showcasing what these superhero-action stories so consistently overlook, while embodying the success of what the genre could achieve.
Your Money or Your Life
Denis Johnson strips bare and shucks the pump in his fast-moving literary noir, Nobody Move.