When, in late 2018 and early 2019, Netflix stated that it was raising the prices for its Canadian and American subscribers, the reactions were swift and impassioned, with many vowing to delete their accounts and look for better alternatives. …

Rock music has always been a strange place for women. They are at once venerated muses of hardened musicians and the subject of critical contempt. Even when they have more than stood their ground — Heart, Joan Jett, Janis Joplin, Shirley Manson, Kim Deal, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, PJ Harvey…

Underneath my stony exterior (I have, alas, been afflicted with Resting Bitchface Syndrome from birth), I’ve always been a nice girl. …

Carol (2015) and Disobedience (2017) are often favorably compared, and it is not hard to see why: both films, based on acclaimed books written by women (The Price of Salt (1952) by Patricia Highsmith, and Disobedience (2006) by Naomi Alderman), depict seemingly doomed love affairs between women in difficult social…

Although the 2018 re-imagining of The Haunting of Hill House is a ghost story, one of the major underlying themes is that of mental illness. …

Warning: spoilers, spoilers abound. As a child, I was drawn to mysteries, devouring Christopher Pike, the Nancy Drew series, and a bit too much Mary Higgins Clark. …

The greatest ally to those in denial of pain and its ensuing ugliness is composure. No one wants to see the raw and thrashing hideousness of a meltdown or a panic attack. It unsettles, and it is unseemly. Even those self-deprecating half-jokes (I want to die), causally thrown in the…

I used to take pride in living my life by the precepts of E. E. Cummings’ wisdom, articulated in his poem “let it go”. The words point to anger and resentment as the cornerstones of unhappiness: and I had anger and resentment to spare. The sort that was deep and…