“Best Sex Toys, 2022!”
At Oh Joy Sex Toy, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan team up with Chicago’s Early To Bed to share their favorite sex toys of 2022–and all in comic form! Read it here.
The Difficult Truths of Kate Beaton’s ‘Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands’
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student […]
Now in the Public Domain!
The Public Domain Review features new books and films that have come into the public domain in the US on Jan. 1, 2023. Read more here. Meanwhile, Duke University has a resource listing sound recordings as well and discussions of copyright and the public domain here.
“The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion”
At the Hudson Review, Tess Lewis writes about translation. “At the risk of appearing to shift the blame for any infelicities or infidelities in my own translations, I’ll go a step further than Emily Apter and maintain that the endeavor to transfer a text from one tongue into […]
“In Praise of the Unfilmable Novel”
At GQ, Jason Diamond writes about Noah Baumbach’s White Noise (2022) and “the unfilmable novel.” “The funny thing about film adaptations of unfilmable novels, though, is how they age: while they tend to meet critical resistance upon release, something interesting happens after that. Often, the movie versions of […]
Sachin Hingoo’s Best Movies of 2022!
At Biff Bam Pop! the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo shares his list of the best movies of 2022! “A year that brought me back to movie theatres and festivals (in person, anyway), 2022 churned out some outstanding films. In hindsight, it might be one of my favourite years […]
The Cultural Gutter 