A feminist origin story, a monster that outlived its creator, and why men have been explaining Frankenstein ever since. Mary Shelley was just 18 years old when she began Frankenstein. Writing in the shadow of male peers who would go on to frame and reinterpret her...
Fifty years later, we’re still dancing in fishnets. Midnight showings of the cult classic taught a generation of outsiders and dreamers how not just to dream it—but to be it. Halloween-ish, near midnight, circa 1984. I was a 16-½-year-old “virgin” weaving through...
Celebrity Breakups of Long-time Marriages Can Really Make Us Sad. Why Do We Get So Invested in Their Relationships? After 19 years together, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were presumed to be totally solid, so news of their split landed like a tiny heartbreak in our...