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An idiot’s guide to cancel culture
What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Claire Dederer’s flimsy, simplistic new book has no answers.
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The aspirations of Agnes Callard
Her philosophy of marriage is an ethical dead end.
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Where are all the good books on sex?
Polly Barton’s “oral history” of porn shows the myopia of cultural criticism drawn from personal experience. We desperately need…
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Magic Mike’s hollow feminism
This “empowering” franchise about male strippers peddles an offensive, patronising narrative about women and sexuality.
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She Said is a myopic, timid and trivial attempt at a #MeToo movie
This film about the fall of Harvey Weinstein has no answers for Hollywood’s sexual abuse problem. It’s too afraid…
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The moral corruption of Holocaust fiction
John Boyne’s shameless sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas exemplifies a genre that expunges the genocide of…
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Industry is porn posing as prestige TV
This supposedly gritty BBC drama offers a gratuitous, outlandish depiction of Gen Z sex. But what really grates is…
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