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Queer literature has become maudlin and self-serious. Thank god, then, that New Directions is reissuing the biting satires of Robert Plunket.

An alliance between the Mattachine Society and a straight lawyer turned the Fire Island Trials into a showdown for equality.

FOR THIS ISSUE, Artforum has invited fashion designer Rick Owens to talk with Renaissance woman Vaginal Davis on the occasion of “Magnificent Product,” an overview of the artist’s decades-long career opening at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm on May 17. The show, organized by Hendrik Folkerts, the museum’s curator of international contemporary art and head of exhibitions, will unfold across five other venues within the city: Accelerator, Stockholm University; Index–Swedish Foundation f...

Spring gets into full swing this week with St Patrick’s Day parades across the city, and there’s Italian-American parades and the Black Masking Indian’s Super Sunday in Uptown.

Spring gets into full swing this week with St Patrick’s Day parades across the city, and there’s Italian-American parades and the Black Masking Indian’s Super Sunday in Uptown.

After another winter of brutal storms on Fire Island, the Feds stepped in with a pile of very expensive sand. But it’s just a Band-Aid.

In its final stretch, the limited series tackles the assassination of Harvey Milk while its characters pull themselves back from the brink of utter personal destruction.

Our critic reviews the offerings of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, the Knoxville Horror Film Festival and Seattles Three Dollar Bill Film Festival

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Everett Collection(Warning: Spoilers for the Saw franchise, including the latest film, Saw X, follow.)Over two decades and 10 films, there’s only one major reason that the Saw franchise has managed to garner such a massive cult following: its brutal, mystifying traps. These contraptions, at first the work of serial killer Jigsaw, aka John Kramer (Tobin Bell), changed hands as the franchise went on and Jigsaw’s apprentices took ov...

With “Saw X”—one the horror franchise’s best installments—now in theaters, we ranked the dozens and dozens of traumatizing “traps” from the films from from worst to best.