Essay When folk horror goes beautiful: You Won鈥檛 Be Alone (2022) May 18, 2026 This is a folk horror witch film about severe, abject child abuse. And as we鈥檒l also see, it鈥檚 about resistance to that kind of abuse, and the desire to find meaning and beauty in life, even with the knowledge that horrific, monstrous evil exists. Read More
Essay The night humans learned to sleep together May 15, 2026 Humans became one of the most successful species on Earth while doing something especially odd: we appear to sleep less than we should. Like鈥 lot less. Read More
Essay Bones and All (2022), or, When Horror Goes Beautiful II May 14, 2026 Something must have been in the air in 2022. In the same year that You Won鈥檛 be Alone聽came keening gloriously out of Macedonia, Bones and All聽loped its achingly beautiful way out of Hollywood. Film essay by Eleanor Johnson, whose book Monstrous Bitch is forthcoming. Read More
Essay You can鈥檛 bowl with a chatbot May 12, 2026 Vehement negative reactions to people befriending, dating, or even marrying AI chatbots are everywhere. Why is that? Read More
Interview Steven Nadler on Spinoza, Atheist April 30, 2026 How could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? Steven Nadler, one of the world鈥檚 leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that that鈥檚 exactly what he was. Read More
Interview Helen Pearson on Beyond Belief April 30, 2026 Helen Pearson tells the story of the evidence revolution鈥攁 worldwide movement that promotes evidence-based thinking鈥攁nd shows how it can help us all, especially in an age of alternative facts. Read More
The Bollingen Series then and now April 29, 2026 The Bollingen Series, a collection of 275 volumes with the聽Collected Works of聽C.G.聽Jung聽as its centerpiece, has been published by聽快色直播 since 1969. Read More
Interview Roland Betancourt on Disneyland and the Rise of Automation April 23, 2026 Roland Betancourt traces how Disneyland became a proving ground for automation at the very moment the American public was most anxious about its consequences. Read More
Interview Peter N. Miller on Conservation as a Human Science April 22, 2026 Conservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic book, the historian Peter N. Miller imagines the outlines of a new, expansive notion of conservation that links the world around us鈥攏atural and man-made鈥攖o the world inside us鈥攐ur genome, our memories. Read More
Interview Catherine Fletcher on The Firearm Revolution April 22, 2026 Catherine Fletcher explores the emergence of firearms in Renaissance Italy and beyond, describing the social transformations that accompanied the evolution of the handgun from innovative military technology to widely used personal accessory. Read More
Essay Succubus (2024): Female monstrosity in the age of AI April 20, 2026 Recently, I watched Succubus (2024); I decided to watch it because, historically, the succubus tradition has some tangency with the tradition of female monstrosity that animates my forthcoming book, Monstrous Bitch, which is the tradition of the Lamia. Read More
Interview Annie McClanahan on Beneath the Wage April 17, 2026 Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Read More
Essay Drag Me to Hell (2009) April 14, 2026 Not all of the 鈥渆levated鈥� horror coming out right now is doing right by us, nor even by cultural history. Drag Me to Hell (2009) is a film animated by exactly the wrong amount of research. Read More
Essay Publishing for planners: A new era for Island Press April 08, 2026 As the legendary legacy publisher transitions into a new life phase, publisher Heather Boyer and senior editor Stacy Eisenstark reflect on the past and the future of creating books for planners. Read More
Interview Andrew H. Knoll on Earth and Life April 01, 2026 How did the world as we know it鈥攆rom the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us鈥攃ome to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Read More
