The Age of Creepiness

Heller-On-Creepiness

Click Here to Read:  The Age of Creepiness by Nathan Heller in the New Yorker on July 9. 2015.

Was John Travolta creepy as a disco predator in “Saturday Night Fever”? Hard to say. Is he creepy as a black-clad gentleman who leers at women while fondling their chins? Yes, very much.CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY ROBYN BECK / AFP / GETTY

Return of the king

IsisReturnoftheKing

Click Here to Read: Return of the king: The ‘cosplay Caliphate’ of ISIS is a deadly fantasy, but a familiar one in the West. It feeds the same urges as Tolkien by Benjamin Dueholm on the aeon webwite.

The Battle of Karbala by Abbas Al-Musavi. Late 19th – early 20th C. Brooklyn Musuem. Photo by Corbis