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 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
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
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
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
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
