writing on trauma, history, identity, and culture
Jess MacCormack's Shame Shame Go Away explores the horrors of trauma and dissociative identity disorder in a remarkable new graphic novel.
"It wasn't the time for me to be busting out a million different flowery adjectives or getting all Proustian."
Kathryn Simpson reviews season one of Netflix's Sex Education.
Scars are like corporeal cartography, mapping out the most painful experiences we've survived. But what about scars from cuts intended to cure pain? What tales do they tell? I have a secret history of self-injury. Like so many "secrets," though, my self-injury scars merely hide in plain sight - more ignored than concealed, really.
A lot of us held the highest of high hopes for Killing Eve, the new TV show starring Sandra Oh. Oh hasn't had a huge television role since her iconic performance as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey's Anatomy finished four years ago. Mostly this has been a really shitty thing, because Oh is phenomenally talented.
One of three essays in the catalogue to accompany the exhibition (23 October 2014-18 January 2015) at the Courtauld Gallery, London, UK
Kathryn Simpson reviews the second season of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story, focusing on the real-life murder of Gianni Versace.
Kathryn Simpson reviews the first two episodes of HBO's darkly comedic new show starring Bill Hader.
Gustav Möller's Danish nail-biter is a taut and terrifying real-time thriller.
LIVE! - Is it? It is! Two Nights with Crispin Glover January 28, 2017: "Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show Part 1," followed by the film What Is It?, Q&A, and a book signing Cinema de Sève, Concordia University "I desire to make films that go beyond the realm of that which is considered good and evil."