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 ...

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 ...

In 1990, working in a tiny fringe theatre, I needed to earn some extra cash. Some bar work, I thought, perhaps waiting tables ...

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 ...

Many artists and others were lowered in to see the decorations in the "grottoes" In recent days an opponent of Hillary Clinton was accused of "grotesque misogyny" while the lack of broadband in rural ...

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 ...