The Whisper Network After Harvey Weinstein and “Shitty Media Men”
Women have long used unofficial information channels to warn each other about predatory men.
October 14, 2017
How Men Like Harvey Weinstein Implicate Their Victims in Their Acts
When you are treated like an object, you are placed within an old and sickening script, one that is incredibly difficult to escape.
October 11, 2017
“American Vandal” Is Like “Serial,” But with Dick Jokes
Netflix’s new series is an eight-episode true-crime parody that escalates at the pace and rhythm of sketch comedy.
October 6, 2017
Charlottesville and the Effort to Downplay Racism in America
The progressive university town feels enough like Eden that it’s always been easy to hide a certain amount of blood.
August 13, 2017
How Do You Make a Responsible Movie About Anorexia?
Marti Noxon’s film “To the Bone” gets at the obscure, immovable contradiction at the center of anorexia, portraying the afflicted as both the oppressor and the oppressed.
July 19, 2017
“From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” Fifty Years Later
E. L. Konigsburg’s classic is even better than you remember.
July 17, 2017
The “Sex and Rage” of Eve Babitz
On the page, the former It girl is pure pleasure—a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz.
July 14, 2017
The Dispiriting But Unsurprising Failure to Convict Bill Cosby
Andrea Constand was a remarkable witness, and yet the defense was still able to make some people doubt her testimony.
June 17, 2017
Bill Cosby’s Defense and Its Twisted Argument About Consent
The jury in the Cosby rape trial needs to understand that a woman’s consent is separate from a man’s intentions.
June 14, 2017
What Bill Cosby’s Accusers Have to Endure on the Stand
It is humiliatingly easy for defense attorneys to reframe a sexual aggression as a romantic flirtation.
June 8, 2017
