Artists and critics should combat stylistic prudishness, overcome guilt and shame, and embrace discourses promiscuously

Critics say videogames devalue life. Maybe that's a good thing

Face-covering vexes geopolitical divisions and reads as one thing: anti-American

Only fiction can be about the trivial without being trivial.

The difference between artworks and their documentation images online is collapsing. So is the prestige economy of traditional galleries

Always never read, fine print is capital's surrealist masterpiece, but will we ever wake up from the dream?

Artists’ self-important claims for their work makes them worse than useless for political activism

Even when men find sex with men beyond the gay identity on the internet, they're still not safe from the heterosexual regime

What can an autistic perspective in novels show us about contemporary subjectivity?

The recent ubiquity of mermaids reflects the yearning to celebrate primal female energy in a culture that often denies it

A report from the demonstrations and demonstrators of Rio de Janeiro

A review of Holly Grigg-Spall's Sweetening The Pill

The only real vegan is a dead vegan

A review of Robert Kolker's Lost Girls

A review of Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future?