Readings

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it threatened to wash away a major part of the American South's Jewish history—a tough notion to sustain and preserve even in the best of times.

One doesn’t have to look hard to find disheartening and downright offensive portrayals of sex workers on screen, but the conspicuous absence of friends feels particularly cruel.

The Palestinian filmmaker on nationalism, film as resistance and hope.

Starvation became a stand-in for the pain of loneliness; a way to account for it, and also to punish myself for being unlovable.

As I've been continually erased by men, I've grown obsessed with remembering the women history forgot. 

The author of Invisible Dead on why writing about Vancouver is liberating and the psychic cost of the truth. 

Going a step further than the recent wave of TV featuring nuanced portrayals of mental illness, Maria Bamford’s new Netflix show takes control of the story rather than settling for mere visibility.

The case for doing things you're terrible at. 

Cats, like reality show stars, aren’t here to make friends. A pageant cannot undo their primal tendencies.