“The Colorful History of Tarot”
Smithsonian Magazine has a piece on the history of Tarot cards and you can read it here. (Thanks, Kate!)
Nosferatu, Jung and Freud
At Film Freak Central, Walter Chaw watches Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu (USA, 2024) with David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method (Canada, 2011). “Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is another shot at the same topic, using not a ghost haunting us from the past as a metaphor for the libidinous violence of men […]
All That Fairy Tale Nonsense
One of the many criticisms levelled at romance novels is that they’re a poor model for women when it comes to real-life relationships. All that fairy tale nonsense, detractors say, will make women want the wrong things from their partners. I could list a dozen things wrong with […]
The Cultural Gutter 