La Petite Mort
Harry Lighton’s film ‘Pillion’ offers a discreetly sanitized version of gay BDSM.
Gender & Sexuality
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
I Ain’t Mad at Cha
On Tupac’s letter to Madonna from prison, and their complex romantic relationship mediated by race, sexualization, and fame.
Know Your Own Men
Some say that Christopher Nolan has finally transformed into a women’s director, but the gender dynamics in his new mythology epic are actually much more complicated.
Who Owns Women Detectives?
Now that Miss Marple and Nancy Drew’s early novels are entering the public domain, what comes next for them?
A Femicide in Saudi Arabia
Haifaa Al-Mansour’s recent film explores the new liberties available to women in her home country.
A Queer Icon for the Authoritarian Ages
Vernon Lee’s ghost stories explore what it takes to resist male gaslighting and what it means to believe women.
Traces of Looking and Feeling
A George Whitmore reissue translates the historical feeling of queer coming-of-age in the 1950s for contemporary readers without slipping into exploitation.
Reductio Trad Absurdum
The matrix of discontent gives birth (naturally, no epidural) to the girlboss’s perfect foil: the online tradwife.
Letter to the Editor in Response to the ‘New Qweird’
The editors of the anthology ‘New Queer Weird’ provide a critique of the other label, recently outlined by LARB contributors.
Your Presence Is Requested
An archive of party invitations from the Bay Area sex-radical scene, from gay liberation to the AIDS crisis.
The Bare Bones (and Skin) of Reality
How neoliberalism changed the strip club.
What Ever Happened to Aunt Gladys?
On Zach Cregger’s ‘Weapons’ and the figure of the hag.
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