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If there was ever a case for women avoiding Botox, Diana’s signature skepticism for the patriarchy is it. She has never encountered womanhood as subordinate, and she’s not about to start.
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Tara Betts discusses her newest collection, Break the Habit, the burden placed on black women artists to be both artist and activist, and why writing is rooted in identity.
...moreIn A.O. Scott’s eyes, summer blockbusters and workplace sitcoms aren’t that different these days: Part of what makes work tolerable is the idea that it is heroic, the fantasy that repetitive and meaningless tasks are charged with risk and significance. Pecking away at our keyboards, we’re cowboys, warriors, superheroes. But meanwhile, superheroics look like every […]
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In my desperate attempts to keep my secret I learned to shut everyone out, to become as closed as a fist.
...moreI send my scripts to at least three trans people every time, to make sure I am not speaking incorrectly, and that I am touching on points that would be realistic. It helps very much that our colourist, Tamra Bonvillain, is a trans woman. A newer comics publisher, AfterShock, is putting out a series featuring […]
...moreNeurons act like Donald Trump. A beetle named for both Darwin and David Sedaris? It’s quiz time. Holy leaping electric eels! Books you can binge. The ultimate superhero is not Batman, says science. Martin Shkreli, Demon Pharmacist of Wall Street: the Musical.
...moreI find the more furtively I move between genres, the more I surprise myself as a writer. Moving between genres, you carry curious things over and also carry them away. I like the gray areas between genres—prose that reads like poetry that moves like a thriller that falls over a reader like poetry—to keep mixing […]
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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.
...moreBecause it’s Saturday, and because at heart I’m a child, Who Pooped? It’s hard to say just how super they are, but there are superheroes roaming around. I wonder if the warnings about Jim still hold? Ever wanted to tell someone to wipe their ass with a TPS Report? You can make it happen now. […]
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