Readings

Marshall McLuhan—whose Understanding Media turns 50 this year—described how media shaped the evolution of the teenager. What about teenagers these days?

Whether writing fiction, non-fiction, or something in between, Dyer manages to make the implausible possible. A few recent releases—two reissued novels and a new work of journalism—show the author at three distinct yet complementary apexes.

As a full retrospective of Jarman’s films opens this week in Toronto, we look at the director’s approach to queer filmmaking, which often meant more than simply telling queer stories—it meant responding, sometimes in hostile fashion, to a suffocating status quo.