In 1990, working in a tiny fringe theatre, I needed to earn some extra cash. Some bar work, I thought, perhaps waiting tables ...

I first read the work of Sarah Rose Etter in a bar in Baltimore, huddled with a friend and a beer and a basket of fries dusted with Old Bay. "You have to read 'Tongue Party,'" my friend told me. It ...

She’s the former American cheerleader cleared of murdering her baby after her school formal, and more than six years on, it ...

Leonardo da Vinci, "Testa caricata e busto di profilo d’uomo verso sinistra" (c. 1490), at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca-Milano (© Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadadori ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Q I hear people use “grotesque” when they really, to my mind, mean “gruesome ...

Grotesque is a film that has stuck with me for a very long time. I’ve written about it before, and watching the movie is actually what got me into film writing and academics. It is a compelling and ...

Last month, intense body horror The Substance went viral, grossing an impressive $47 million at the box office against a $17.5 million budget, and prompting hundreds of millions of reaction and review ...