Foreword to Violette Leduc's La Bâtarde
Violette Leduc's autobiographical La bâtarde is an oft-overlooked classic of feminist literature.
This Week in Art Crime
A geriatric Australian man tags a police station and flees on a toy scooter; A photographer takes blurry images of CIA black sites
Un(der)seen Cinema: Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera revealed how revolution reshaped the world, and in reflecting that revolutionary world, intensified it.
Un(der)seen Cinema: Grin Without a Cat
Chris Marker's film essay A Grin Without a Cat traces the victories and defeats of the communist struggle, from 1965-1977
The Art of the Interview: Dave Chappelle and Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou talks with Dave Chappelle about creativity, celebrity, and cultural politics.
Going Out: No Tomorrows
The joke belongs to contested time, those few hours past dawn
Variations on a Theme: Compromises With Tyranny
That comrade is now useless as an operative. He's been exposed. That medal is a shackle.
Cardinal Sins
53. Brought hot chicken soup on a tray to the bedridden, maybe
The Art of the Rebuttal: Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof responds to critics demanding the class of 2014 grow up and listen to Condoleezza Rice
The Art of Faking It: St. Vincent
St Vincent outcreeps Steve Albini with a terrifying cover of Kerosene
Un(der)seen Cinema: La Commune
Simultaneously a reenactment of the Paris Commune and a political documentary about the collective process of the reenactment's production
Un(der)known Writers: Elaine Kraf
An excerpt from Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street
Critical Moments: The Birth of the Hack
Renata Adler was not impressed by Pauline Kael's essay collection When the Lights Go Down
Un(der)seen Cinema: Born in Flames
Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames shows just how short "we'll fix it after the revolution" falls.
The Magnetic North
Female clairvoyants in the 19th century used their powers to traverse class as well as distance
My Gay Shame, or, How Patriarchy Stole Sex
I wanted my own desire and not to be only desire’s object.