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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

Boston Rules

The city became the go-to for a very specific type of crime movie, but Spotlight is the first film to truly capture it since Good Will Hunting. 

Like This So I Know I'm Real

If the “like” remains the basic unit of reaction on social media—and therefore, of online life—then the most powerful force is indifference.

Early Stories Pt. 3: Boundless

"Ever since I was hatched, I have known the universe is a dangerous place."

Mainstream Creep: Keeping Feminist Film Criticism Subversive

Feminist film writing has historically struggled with a problem of reach limited by privilege. Can online journals solve the access issue without bowing to popular influence? 

'Empathy Implicates You': An Interview with Bill Hader

On Jeffrey Dahmer, classics professors, soccer hooligans and comic books. 

The First Time I Painted a Painting

"'What legacy will I leave behind tonight,' I thought to myself as I sipped my Rioja and a couple behind me earnestly called each other 'babe' every minute or so."