Rebecca Solnit considers Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence through the lens of storytelling, and who gets to do it now that at least two men who were “in charge of stories” — Weinstein and Woody Allen — have in the past week lost so much of their power, and women are now finding their voices.
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How a Predator Operated in Plain Sight
Lisa Miller makes a compelling argument that the male-dominated sexual revolution of the ’70s and the group-think it engendered led to the silence and tacit acceptance around Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of girls and young women. “A generation of entrepreneurial and ‘brilliant’ men took the job of defining the ‘erotic’ for everyone else,” she writes, “without […]
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The New Scabs: Stars Who Cross the Picket Line
“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude,” wrote George Orwell in 1946, and it still stands.
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The Lost Boys of #MeToo
When we hear “sexual abuse” we think “women and girls.” But Hollywood’s boy actors are suffering in a different way.
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Lurve You? Or Loathe You?
Maybe Woody Allen’s romantic comedies weren’t terribly romantic after all.
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Unlearning Woody Allen
An essay of cultural criticism in which David Klion breaks down Woody Allen’s influence on the culture, romantic comedies, and Klion himself, and realizes the premises and attitudes in movies like Annie Hall and Manhattan aren’t so romantic after all.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Monster
Does art exist in the world of personality and petty grievance and predation, or does it float in a morally-neutral ether? Depends who you ask.
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What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
“We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority.”