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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the interest of full disclosure, I should begin with a few confessions. One of my favorite hymns is “Fairest Lord Jesus.” For a spell, I included a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky in my email ...

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 ...

It’s hard to imagine two 20th century American photographers more diametrically opposed than the macabre visionary William Mortensen and Ansel Adams, poster boy for so-called straight photography.

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 ...