FictionReviewThis delicious debut hovers between domestic horror and supernatural unease
The gothic is a seductive but slippery genre, as much emotion as form: you’d be hard pressed to find two academics agreeing wholly on its definition. Often, novels are claimed for the gothic because of a creaking stair or an imperilled maiden; yet true gothic lies not merely in tropes – though these are to be prized – but in an expression of transgression, madness or desire that makes the unnerved reader complicit in the tale. Read More...
Spoilers for The Square ahead.
There is an insane — call it “bonkers,” or “fucking nuts” — 12-minute scene in The Square wherein a shirtless man (Terry Notary) doing a performance as a chimpanzee terrorizes a black-tie museum gala in Stockholm. Whooping and jumping on tables, he goes from kind of amusing to absolutely unacceptable to even worse, and all before these wealthy Swedes have even had their appetizers. Read More...
Play video content PRESSING CHARGES Lira Galore filed a police report and is lawyering up to take down the perps responsible for spreading an old sex tape of her online ... including the bloggers.
The model tells us she already knows who's responsible for dishing out the sex vid starring herself and an ex-boyfriend -- not Rick Ross -- and her legal team's not wasting any time going after them. Read More...