“As a trope in horror, the mean child is always very scary. I think it's because if a child is bad, is mean, is evil, because evil is just the word, there's two reasons for him to be evil. One: huge damage beyond everything. So he can only react with evil. And the other thing is that he was born evil, which is kind of like a demonic situation. And it kind of puts upside down all our notions of purity, innocence, violence, children, etc.”
“You can have really intense intimacy over distance, sometimes only because distance is there.”
Ann Quin is, above all, a self-aware writer, with an ironic understanding of the limits of symbolic expression, who was nevertheless prepared to test those limits.
What might the dynamic of mental life look like when its physiological counterpart is ill, bedridden, and housebound?
Across the slatted border between the United States and Mexico, near Ciudad Juárez, the artists Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello recently installed several ...
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In 1816, only four years after the Brothers Grimm brought out a collection of fairy tales carefully selected and edited for the use of children, E. T. A. Hoffmann published his “Nutcracker and Mouse ...
This past year, Yoplait began airing a commercial, entitled “Mmm,” which features a family—a man, woman, and two children—eating yogurt, producing a chorus of “Mmms” as they ingest. The mother emits ...
Set sometime in the early 1950s, Toni Morrison’s latest work of fiction centers on a 24-year-old black veteran of the Korean War named Frank Money, recently returned from the frontlines and showing ...
For hard-core fans of Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home—and we are legion—the publication of its follow-up, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, was a major event ...
