femme fatale
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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?
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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.
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Your Money or Your Life
Denis Johnson strips bare and shucks the pump in his fast-moving literary noir, Nobody Move.