News

I’m editing a romance novel criticism column at Public Books! It doesn’t pay, alas, but if you’d like to write about a favorite romance novel for a general audience, contact me (myname at gmail.)

And a nice little review of my Wonder Woman book that I missed.

On Patreon

I wrote about:

Alice Guy-Blaché’s silent film about the horrors of gender flipping, The Consequences of Feminism.

why Nocturnal Animals is a misogynist piece of crap.

Adorno, Freddie deBoer, and why we shouldn’t be paying attention to something else.

Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about

—Westworld, Sherlock, and how television is eager to prove it is smart art.

— Leigh Gilmore’s Tainted Witness and how not believing women got us Trump.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—Sherlock’s Molly Hooper and Trinity Syndrome.

—Elaine May’s incredibly painful The Heartbreak Kid.

—marketing the city of the monkey god.

I was on the podcast 60db talking about Westworld, Sherlock, Project Runway, and what’s wrong with quality television.

Patreon

I wrote about Time Bandits and child abuse.

A list of my 30 favorite albums from this year.

A list of my favorite essays I wrote this year.

 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about all the things Princess Leia got to be.

At Playboy I wrote about sci fi alien sex (and Westworld and Passengers.)

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Dawn Richard’s awesome album Redemption.

—Near Dark and male protagonist dipshits.

—how the judges screwed Laurence Basse on Project Runway.

—how Bowie and Prince didn’t live in a better time.

—how to support free speech you shouldn’t give a fascist a book deal.

At the Chicago Reader I wrote a brief review of hardcore band Udusic.

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News

Kit Power said my Hammer Dracula book was one of the best nonfiction reads of the year.

Anita McDaniel reviewed my Wonder Woman book at the American Journal of Communications.
 
On Patreon

I published an unpaywalled 4000 word piece on how men are targeted for violence, and why MRAs make things worse.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the LA Times I wrote about identity politics and being Jewish at Christmas in the age of Trump.

At Quartz I wrote about

—Rogue One’s underwhelming visuals.

—my top ten bandcamp albums of the year.

At Religion Dispatches I argued that it’s not immoral to believe in miracles.

At Splice Today I wrote

—on Euzhan Palcy’s A Dry White Season and mainstream compromise.

—that both Sanders and Clinton ran decent campaigns.
 

News

I released a little ebook on American political films. Buy one!
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about

—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as camp antiwar masterpiece.

—Bernie Sanders and picking up Trump’s political correctness talking points.

At the Establishment I wrote about It’s a Wonderful Life as bleak Trump-era paean to white male resentment.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—how the media’s handling of the DNC emails was unethical even if it wasn’t a Russian plot.

—the smug gods of Westworld.

—Clueless as an assimilation fantasy.