Ultimately, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy does exactly what it sets out to do, and for the audience that enjoys the modern spate of ...

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 ...

Leonardo da Vinci, "Testa caricata e busto di profilo d’uomo verso sinistra" (c. 1490), at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca-Milano (© Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadadori ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Q I hear people use “grotesque” when they really, to my mind, mean “gruesome ...

In 1990, working in a tiny fringe theatre, I needed to earn some extra cash. Some bar work, I thought, perhaps waiting tables ...

In recent days an opponent of Hillary Clinton was accused of "grotesque misogyny" while the lack of broadband in rural areas was branded a "grotesque problem". But the word didn't always mean ...