I first read the work of Sarah Rose Etter in a bar in Baltimore, huddled with a friend and a beer and a basket of fries dusted with Old Bay. "You have to read 'Tongue Party,'" my friend told me. It ...

Many artists and others were lowered in to see the decorations in the "grottoes" In recent days an opponent of Hillary Clinton was accused of "grotesque misogyny" while the lack of broadband in rural ...

Grotesque is a film that has stuck with me for a very long time. I’ve written about it before, and watching the movie is actually what got me into film writing and academics. It is a compelling and ...

It’s hard to imagine two 20th century American photographers more diametrically opposed than the macabre visionary William Mortensen and Ansel Adams, poster boy for so-called straight photography.