I first read the work of Sarah Rose Etter in a bar in Baltimore, huddled with a friend and a beer and a basket of fries dusted with Old Bay. "You have to read 'Tongue Party,'" my friend told me. It ...

Leonardo da Vinci, "Testa caricata e busto di profilo d’uomo verso sinistra" (c. 1490), at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca-Milano (© Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadadori ...

In the interest of full disclosure, I should begin with a few confessions. One of my favorite hymns is “Fairest Lord Jesus.” For a spell, I included a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky in my email ...

Grotesque is a film that has stuck with me for a very long time. I’ve written about it before, and watching the movie is actually what got me into film writing and academics. It is a compelling and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Q I hear people use “grotesque” when they really, to my mind, mean “gruesome ...

Last month, intense body horror The Substance went viral, grossing an impressive $47 million at the box office against a $17.5 million budget, and prompting hundreds of millions of reaction and review ...

Marilyn Manson has made a career of searching for and enslaving the opiate masses - metaphorically speaking, of course. On his last two albums he was too busy inventing characters and trying to write ...