NQV Media’s ‘The Male Gaze’ series always brings together interesting shorts that might otherwise pass by the casual viewer. Spotlighting film-makers from around the globe, the series has delivered ...

Don’t you just love when you dive into a game, not really knowing what to expect but end up being wholly impressed? That’s been me with Creatures of Ava. Described as a “creature-saver”, I expected ...

If you were ever curious as to what pre-jazz music might have sounded like in the Louisiana area, then Benoit LeBlanc's Mô kouzin mô kouzinn is the album for you. LeBlanc presents 27 Creole songs that ...

When I was a girl in the 1950s women, for the most part, got married, gave birth, and stayed home; if necessary, they went to work as schoolteachers or secretaries or salesgirls. They did not enter ...

Parents need to know that readers will learn from the very beginning of Rory Power's Killer Creatures that 16-year-old Nan Carver murdered her three best friends and has absolutely no regrets about ...

As an explorer, you’ve landed on an uncharted island filled with new and wondrous species. In the hopes of improving your Instagram followers, you immediately post a photo of a mysterious beast that’s ...

If internet videos with titles like "Supersonic Golf Ball to the Forehead" have taught us anything, it's that a slow motion chthonic mace to the dome is a weighty chthonic mace to the dome. So goes ...

The Roman historian Sallustius, also known as Sallust, hit on a crystalline formulation to describe concepts that we know to be fictional and unreal but that nevertheless loom large in our ...

Their multi-faceted world is well evoked in April De Angelis’s 1993 play, now revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, which gives a robustly feminist account of thespians in the Restoration reign of the ...

The title says it all. April De Angelis’s 1993 play is the story of the lives of the actresses who first took to the stage in England in the 1660s and transformed theatre as we know it. Their ...

Inspired by creatures she encountered diving in the waters off a remote island, the Japanese singer-songwriter’s understated, beautiful album explores liminal worlds through softly textured ambient ...