Penguin Classics Ugh. Hey, happy International Men’s Day, everyone! In honor of this special day, everyone should read Rebecca Solnit’s “80 Books No Woman Should Read” at LitHub immediately. Solnit rightfully skewers Esquire‘s “The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read,” which reads a bit like a taxonomy of assholes, a fact not lost on […]
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Mockingjay: Don’t Split Up Your Conclusion, No Matter How Tempting the Cash Payout
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY—PART II Fuck Hillary. KATNISS IN 2016 When I reviewed The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part I, I made a grievous error: I described it as the franchise’s Empire Strikes Back. What I meant was that literally nothing good happened in that plodding gray film, despite the best efforts of Jennifer Lawrence and the […]
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Patti Smith Loves Coffee, and I Love Patti Smith
In M Train, Patti Smith Does Whatever She Wants. It’s a Beautiful Thing to Witness.
In M Train, Patti Smith does whatever she wants. It’s a beautiful thing to witness.
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Is Mockingjay Mocking Us?
With the Hunger Games, the Odds Are Never in Our Favor
Mockingjay—Part II is a great reminder to not split up your thrilling conclusion.
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Brooklyn Is Unapologetically Sentimental, in the Best Way
At Last! Saoirse Ronan Isn’t Wasted!
At last! Saoirse Ronan isn’t wasted!
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Step it Up, Portland! We Have More Cat Ladies Than Seattle, But JUST BARELY
Thinkstock #squadgoals. Bad news, Portland: The Seattle Times reported on the presence of cat ladies in American cities (defined as single women who live alone with at least one cat), and though Portland obviously leads the nation, with 9.9 percent of single women living with cats, our northern rival, Seattle, is CLOSE BEHIND at 9.3 […]
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Women in Texas are Inducing Their Abortions Themselves
via Thinkstock You know, unless you’re a woman. Fuck this week, man. The latest craze among governors in hard-right states has been to say, full of utterly wrong passionate intensity, that they won’t accept Syrian refugees within their borders. Meanwhile, we’re seeing what happens when another popular ultraconservative opt-out hobby—eroding women’s healthcare—comes to its obvious […]
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Want to Ruin Your Monday? Here’s Dayna Evans’ Expose of Sexism at Gawker
Gawker G is for galling. This week sucks, and it’s about to get suckier: Yesterday, Matter ran a lengthy piece by former Gawker.com staffer Dayna Evans, on Gawker’s “woman problem,” and right out of the gate, it’s bad. Behold, Gawker founder and CEO Nick Denton’s response to the New York Times‘ inquiry as to who’d […]
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Free-Bleedin’ at Taco Bell: Kill Rock Stars Albums from Ian Karmel and Emily Heller are Here!
Kill Rock Stars At last! Our own Kill Rock Stars releases new comedy albums from (Mercury columnist) Ian Karmel and Emily Heller today! Karmel’s 9.2 on Pitchfork was recorded at Mississippi Studios. You can sample it here. It’s full of classic Karmel: heroic Taco Bell quests bringing out one’s inner asshole, smug parents being smug, […]
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The Week in Art: Jonathan Case’s New Deal, Drunk Girls at Theatre Vertigo, Liminal’s Insulting New Show
Dark Horse Comics In The New Deal, Jonathan Case sets some tricky-to-pull-off parameters: a graphic novel about income inequality, basically, with the jaunty style of a classic mystery—and succeeds. “Peeling back the façade of the American system to reveal corruption or deceit beneath isn’t necessarily new, but what Case reveals in The New Deal is […]
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Get Ready for Literary True Crime: Graywolf is Reissuing Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts
Graywolf Press via Instagram Look at the half-tone dots on the text. What does it remind you of? When you’re curious to a fault, true crime reading supplemented by Wikipedia rabbit holes is inevitable. True crime! It’s so scary. It’s so disturbing. It’s so… badly written. Unlike its slick multimedia siblings (Serial, The Jinx) and […]
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At Theatre Vertigo, Drunken Girls and Mortal Dread
The Drunken City Is About a Bachelorette Party. Don’t Let That Dissuade You!
The Drunken City is about a bachelorette party. Don’t let that dissuade you!