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We find ourselves in that time of year dedicated to the most sensuous and worldly of the earth signs. What is the missing item from your wardrobe?

I spent last week cosplaying as a DJ at the Kootenai County Fair — a haze of golden dust and nostalgia where families gathered daily...

From sex-positivity to abortion, liberal advances have dehumanised women, argues Mary Harrington – but “nature” is not always as kind as she thinks.

In this issue: The anti-abortion movement’s post-Roe future, the plant peddlers of Appalachia, the real effect of the child tax credit now that it’s gone, and more.

How a century of horror movies reflects our existential fears, the surreal real estate market for ghostly homes, and visiting a haunted house in 2021.

Fatal Attraction: Inside the intoxicating depravity of Lisa Taddeos Animal © Provided by Entertainment Weekly Illustration by Beth Hoeckel for EW Its impossible to talk about Animal without talking about 2019s Three Women. That book, which follows the sexual and emotional lives of women, became the kind of cultural phenomenon that will forever follow Lisa Taddeo. Animal flows out of its predecessor, but where Women deals with the perils of heteronormative gender politics, Animal deals i...