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Why Horror Fiction Matters for Telling Indigenous Stories
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Iโve been consuming horror films and books from perhaps a too young age, though itโs worked out fine for me. Itโs been a formative genre for me as a…
16 Spooky Novellas by Women and Nonbinary Authors
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Whatย makes a spooky novella so satisfying? You might as well ask why a raven is like a writing desk. (The answer, of course, is that all three things remind…
Dorothy L. Sayers and the Enduring Legacy of a Marriage of True Minds
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โOriginally delivered as the Annual Speech (28 June 2023) for the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, edited. Exactly a hundred years ago this October, Dorothy L Sayers published Whose Body?…
Dann McDorman on Exploring Literary Hijinks and Meta Mystery
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While mysteries can usually be trusted to compel the reader within the first chapter or even the first few pages, itโs rare for them to hook us from the…
Ruins in Rain City:ย Trouble in Mind and the Career of Alan Rudolph
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Filmmaker Alan Rudolph has been working in the movie business for most of his life. Coming from a Hollywood family where his dad Oscar was also a director, Rudolph…
How Scarface Became a โFoundational Influence for Hip Hopโ
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Itโs hard to think of a $21 million dollar motion picture as a โcult movieโ but thatโs what Brian DePalmaโs 1983 Scarface almost became until it was saved by…
The New Season of โLupinโ Is Extravagant, Spectacular, and Occasionally Hard to Believe
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Two things jumped out at me back when I started watching the first season of Lupin, Netflixโs wildly successful show about a โgentleman thiefโ in Paris who spends his…