Culture and politics from a contemporary historian‘s perspective. Film analyses and digests of recommended reading and listening. Analyses of historical objects and events for paid subscribers.

Essays on queer period films from Robert Stinner.

Acquired Tastes is a weekly newsletter dedicated to exploring and challenging traditional notions of “good taste” in film criticism. Join me on a journey to the highest highs and lowest lows of film, extolling cinematic brilliance or basking in idiocy.

“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life...the cinema both gives to life and takes from it.” - Jean-Luc Godard

Big questions drawn from small details.

Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.