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
Podcast On Pedantry April 14, 2026 On Pedantry sheds critical light on why anti-intellectual views have gained renewed prominence today and serves as essential reading in an age of rising populism across the globe. 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
Interview Mark Peterson on The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution March 25, 2026 Mark Peterson discusses The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History, his provocative new history of America鈥檚 constitution and urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined. Read More
Podcast Vested Interests March 16, 2026 By chronicling the long history of Native land dispossession through financial paternalism, Vested Interests reveals the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States. Read More
Essay The war conundrum March 11, 2026 Read or listen to the news and the world seems like a violent place. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, the razing of Gaza, and the ongoing US-Israel assault on Iran may garner the most attention in the Western press, but they鈥檙e merely the most prominent in a depressingly long list of current conflicts. Read More
Essay Hereditary (2018): The monstrous bitch bites back March 04, 2026 It would be difficult to find a 21st century horror film that was more critically acclaimed and more genuinely terrifying than Hereditary. The underlying reason, I think, is that the film does something extraordinary in its thinking about women in relation to patriarchy. Read More
Reading List 快色直播 to read during Women鈥檚 History Month March 02, 2026 Explore books by and about women who have pushed boundaries, effected change, redefined roles, or who have complicated our understanding of what it means to be powerful. Read More
Podcast Listen in: One Man鈥檚 Freedom February 17, 2026 Nicholas Buccola tells the compelling story of Goldwater and King鈥檚 dramatic decade-long debate over the meaning of an all-important American ideal. Read More
Reading List Exploring Black Experiences February 02, 2026 First proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in 1969,聽Black History Month, celebrated annually in February in the US, is an opportunity to celebrate Black voices, achievements, and to聽reflect on the central role of African Americans throughout US history. 快色直播 is proud to publish books that engage with serious issues and ideas relating to Black experiences. Read More
Essay Dreaming under fascism January 27, 2026 Did ordinary Germans realise they were living through a historical nightmare? Would we recognise the same signs if we were living through them today? Read More
Interview Mustafa Aksakal on The War That Made the Middle East January 22, 2026 A sweeping narrative of war, great power politics, and ordinary people caught up in the devastation, Mustafa Aksakal's The War That Made the Middle East offers new insights about the Great War and its profound and lasting consequences. Read More
Essay Why know-it-alls get under our skin, and what their history can teach us November 21, 2025 You probably know the kind of person who can ruin a dinner party before anyone has picked up a fork or knife. They casually correct your pronunciation of 鈥渁p茅ritif,鈥� keenly explain the difference between prosecco and cava, and, by dessert, are lecturing on the limitations of spelling checkers. Read More
Essay Finding Sophie November 18, 2025 Somehow, the message didn鈥檛 sink in. I鈥檇 often heard the old adage: 鈥渁 picture is worth a thousand words.鈥� But the photograph by Alexander Gardner didn鈥檛 explain itself to me. Instead, it took me about 130,000 words to try and explain it. I wrote an entire book about one photograph. Read More
Podcast The First King of England November 17, 2025 From one of today鈥檚 leading historians of the early medieval period, The First King of England is an enthralling chronicle of 脝thelstan, England鈥檚 founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it. Read More
