THE WEEKLY READER
Feminist reads, every Saturday morning.
Man Down: “The Power Of the Dog” Is a Brutal Meditation on Masculinity
by Jourdain Searles
Jane Campion’s new film, The Power of the Dog, is a tense exploration of masculinity centered on three very different men and the woman who shifts the dynamic of their lives. There are no heroes or villains in this western—just people struggling to communicate with each other.
1. How the monarchy co-opted the myth of Princess Diana. [Sohel Sarkar]
2. Catherine McCormack's new book, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does With Female Bodies, explores the power of artistic imagery from Venus to Beyoncé. [Nicole Diaz-Radlauer]
3. Bad reporting doesn't just get immigration wrong, it helps worsen actual immigration policy. [Tina Vasquez]
4. In her moving memoir, A Face for Picasso, Ariel Henley talks facial equality and growing up with Crouzon syndrome. [Maggie May Ethridge]
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5. Have you noticed that Hallmark seems to be diversifying their "Hallmark Christmas movie" offerings beyond the usual white, Christian, hetero-dominant worldview lately? [Jennifer Chang]
6. Faith Jones's Sex Cult Nun is a startling memoir of child abuse about the Children of God, the cult founded by her grandfather David Berg. [Nylah Burton]
8. Are rom-coms finally shedding the bitter-single-woman trope? [Joshunda Sanders]
