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Discovering the Pleasures of Daniel Craig's James Bond

The Pathos of Performance in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"

Your Weekly Joy: October 6, 2021

Review: "The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers"

Book Review: "The Women of Troy"

Book Review: "The Definitive "Golden Girls" Cultural Reference Guide"

The Pleasures of Poirot: "Appointment with Death"

"The Other Two" and the Pursuit of Queer Happiness

The Transcendent Joy of Seeing "The Golden Girls" on the Big Screen

Mad for Marple: "At Bertram's Hotel"

The Subversive Charms of "Q-Force"

The Pleasures of Poirot: "The ABC Murders"

Book Review: "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency"

The Pleasures of Poirot: "After the Funeral"

Book Review: "Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Princesses of King Edward Longshanks"

The Unapologetic Instability of Archer

Your Weekly Joy: September 4, 2021

"Physical" and the Demythologizing of Reagan's America

Book Review: "The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine"

Book Review: "Daughters of Sparta"

The Queer Pathos of Jennifer Coolidge

Your Weekly Joy: August 26, 2021

The Beautiful Cynicism of "The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf"

"The Chair" and the Pain and Joy of Being Seen

In Praise of Apple TV+

OnlyFans and the American Sex Panic

The Simple Joy of "Ted Lasso"

What "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" Got Right

Midsommar and the Time/Space of Horror

American Horror Stories and the Horrors of (Post)Modernity

The Surprising Optimism of "American Horror Story"

The Sexual Politics of "Domina"

Dr. Death and the Shortcomings of the Docudrama

Book Review: "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation"

The Perils and Pleasures of Being Queerly Different

Book Review: "House of Names"

"The Kominsky Method" Shows the Joys and Sorrows of Aging

On Being an Academic Expatriate

Et tu, Katha Pollitt?

Book Review: "The Children of Jocasta"

Maybe It's a Good Thing if "Luca" Isn't Queer

Book Review: "American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

The Decline and Fall of Andrew Sullivan

Book Review: "Dominus: A Novel of the Roman Empire"

Book Review: "Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal"

Book Review: "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs"

Book Review: "Ariadne"

A Letter to Dr. Mary Beard

A Tale of Two Swords: Why "King Arthur" and "Cursed" Fail to Capture the Essence of a Mythos

Book Review: "God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World"

Antiquity is Everywhere--and this Presents Classicists with a Golden Opportunity

The Humanizing Power of Performance in "The Golden Girls"

Disney Villains and the Death of Imagination

The Subtle Radicalism of "Rutherford Falls"

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Queer Friendship

The Enduring Appeal of the Tudors

Alison Weir, the Six Tudor Queens, and the Pleasures of Historical Fiction

The Piercing Poignancy of Queer Narratives

Book Review: "The Premonition: A Pandemic Story"

The Perils and Pleasures of the Biopic

Gardening, Grandmothers, and Family Heritage

Book Review: "The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters"

Liz Cheney, Popular Culture, and the Conservative Women Conundrum

Book Review: "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way we Watch Today"

Lil Nas X and the Perils and Pleasures of Gay Sex

"Wolfwalkers" and the Enchantment of 2D Animation

Book Review: "Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency"

How Do You Mourn A Statistic?

Book Review: "Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire"

The Oscars, In Memoriam, and Hollywood's Relentless Search for the New

The Tragic Temporality of Animal Companionship

Andrew Sullivan and the Toxicity of Both-Sides-Ism

Book Review: "Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century"

Rediscovering Visual Pleasure

Book Review: "Mike Nichols: A Life"

Book Review: "The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto"

Book Review: "The Last Queen: Elizabeth II's Seventy Year Battle to Save the House of Windsor"

Author Spotlight: Jane Kolven

Watching "Chernobyl" in the time of COVID

The MonsterVerse and the Absurd Contradictions of the Anthropocene

"Suicide Squad," "Birds of Prey," and the Future of the DCEU

Book Review: "The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town"

The Joyous Sublime of "Schitt's Creek"

"Zack Snyder's Justice League" and the Dark Side of the Epic

Book Review: "Surviving Autocracy"

Thank You For Being a Fan: On Being a Recovering Academic and the Phenomenon of Jealous Fandom

Book Review: "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents"

Book Review: "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth"

The Queer Joy of Doris Day

Book Review: "Pelosi"

Book Review: "All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson"

Book Review: "Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy"

Book Review: "Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now"

Gazing at Extinction: Film, Photography, and the Specter of the Vanished

TV Review: "Framing Britney Spears"

Book Review: "Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise"

Martin Scorsese and the Myopia of Cinephilia

How Watching Old Movies with my Grandma Turned Me Gay

Book Review: America and Iran: A History from 1720 to the Present

Can Classics Be Saved?

Barack Obama's Memoir, "A Promised Land" Reminds Us of the Power of Optimism

Book Review: "Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America"

Book Review: "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation"

If You Want to Understand White Poverty in America, Watch Showtime's Shameless

Now is the Time to Act on Voter Suppression

The Terror and the Beauty of Genndy Tartatovsky's "Primal"

For the Love of Hillary Clinton

To Move Into the Future, the GOP Must Acknowledge and Deal with Its Past

Bridgerton, Trash, and the Costume Drama Conundrum

There's an Intellectual Rot at the Heart of Modern Conservative Thought

Whither Now, America?

Political, cultural, and social commentary from a quasi-academic perspective