misogyny

Essays
Lustucru: From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals

Lustucru: From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals

Jé Wilson charts the migration of the Lustucru figure through the French cultural imagination — from misogynistic blacksmith bent on curbing female empowerment, to child-stealing bogeyman, to jolly purveyor of packaged pasta. more

Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder

Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder

A mercenary and miscreant, the Swiss Renaissance artist Urs Graf lived the violence and vice he summoned on his drafting table. Miya Tokumitsu introduces us to his astonishing drawings of soldiers and sex workers, and finds an impotent melancholy within these often nightmarish scenes. more