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February 2020

February 05, 2020

“Everyone Is Female, And Everyone Hates It”: I review a queer theory/comedy chapbook

at Commonweal: "Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” This is the thesis of Andrea...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

A Social-Media Comedy from the 1970s: And Four More Quick Movie Notes

Hm, let's do this in chronological order of the films' release. That means we end...

December 2018

December 08, 2018

Playing Favorites and Pushing Limits in the Court of Queen Anne

The Favourite is a monstrously satisfying movie. This tale of eighteenth-century intrigue in the British...

July 2018

July 22, 2018

A Nuclear Eden: Return to Angela Carter’s “Heroes & Villains”

Man, remember how I said Anna Karenina was the most heterosexual novel I'd ever read?...

May 2018

May 15, 2018

Catherine Addington on the Limited Imagination of the Met Gala

and the broadness of actual Catholic tradition: But given this year’s theme, the limited gender...

February 2018

February 04, 2018

I Pay Tribute to John Bellairs, The Mackerel-Snapping Master of Moppet Macabre

at the University Bookman: Children fell in love with the tales of John Bellairs (1938–1991)...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

From Girlhood to Sublimity: Watching “The Fits” Again

It is the last dream of children: to be forever untouched. --Audre Lorde, Zami: A...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

Why Don’t Blue-Collar Workers Just Take Pink-Collar Jobs?: Megan McArdle

vs economists who scold men for not becoming the New Soviet Persyn the market demands:...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

“To Paradise, By Way of Kensal Green”: I review “The English Way”

for the University Bookman. Papist polemics, monks with painted eyelids, "apostolic viragoes" and more! You...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

“Tenderness in Moonlight”: I’m at First Things

reviewing a movie, and also contemporary American Christian masculinity: Years ago I was reading testimonies...

August 2016

August 03, 2016

Fr. Mother, Or, Is There an Equivalent to the Priesthood for Ladies?

A while ago I wrote this ironically-distanced post about how one might defend the all-male...

August 03, 2016

“What’s Missing from the Conversation About Transgender Kids”: New York Magazine

makes an increasingly-important point: “If you wait until puberty has got a little way along,...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

From Natalie Hopkinson, “Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City”

At that, the crowd of about two hundred youngsters detonated. They began to pair off,...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

“Last Year’s Horror Cornucopia: Suffering in Style”: I’m at First Things

every Halloween is self-parody Halloween: Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson's 2015...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

“Why Transgender Kids Should Wait to Transition”: Pacific Standard

short essay: ...But research has shown that most gender dysphoric children outgrow their dysphoria, and...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

“Everyone I Love Is an Allegorical Representation of Ireland”: And Other Catchy Folk Tunes

I forget where I found this: im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

A Retraction, Re: Marriage. Too Bad, This Bit Had a Good Line in It.

So in an earlier post I wrote this: It's important that marriage--its norms and expectations,...

June 30, 2015

Marriage Unconstrained: In Which I Argue with Myself

So I don't know if you noticed, but that Pixar/gay marriage post was really two...

June 27, 2015

“Lava” in the Western World: Justice Kennedy and Pixar

Yesterday afternoon I watched Inside Out. You'll get more from me about that later, but...

June 12, 2015

From Pierre Clitandre, “Cathedral of the August Heat: A Novel of Haiti”

Then the ragged crowd pressed forward, in spite of the threat of the guns. They...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

Neighbors and Strangers: Edward P. Jones’s Tales of Black Catholic D.C.

The title of All Aunt Hagar's Children gives you an idea of one of the...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Where Do Men Still Cuddle?: Vlad Chituc

writes: ...If it weren’t so threatening to seem gay, there wouldn’t be a need to...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

An Amazing Exchange from the Deleted Scenes of “Damsels in Distress”

ROSE: One thought reassures me: Our stupidity must be part of God’s divine plan. He...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Hell Is for Children: “Krabat,” A New Entry in the Field of Scary Christmas Movies

For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to...

October 2014

October 13, 2014

From “Infinite Jest”

Arm out like a hack's arm, Gately blasts through B.U. country. As in backpack and...

October 02, 2014

“In Between Insomnia and Scandinavia”: Gorgeous Paintings Inspired by Norwegian Family Novels

via Matt Frost. TMN: You’ve said the novel trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter was an inspiration for...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

The Anima Christi: A Deleted Chapter from My Great Big Gay Catholic Book

I had to cut a lot from the book, and this chapter was eccentric and...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

Various Tails: Or, An Update on My Summer Reading

This year I answered not one but two of those hubristic "What do you plan...

July 15, 2014

I Review “Venus in Fur” Movie

for AmSpec: Venus in Fur opens like a horror film—more precisely, like a horror-comedy. The...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

From “Going to the Dogs”

"That happens to many women. We young men have cares of our own, and they...