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Marnie Shure The “action poetry” of Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd Laura Adamczyk Jeff VanderMeer’s latest work of bleak eco-fiction is an apocalyptic page-turner Alex McLevy Advertisement May 12 Save Savage Love 5/12/21 Savage Love 5/12/21 Savage Love This week in Savage Love: Dramatis personae Dan Savage 43 Save I’m someone who does gay porn for a living. How do people who do gay porn meet someone who doesn’t just sexualize or fetishize them? I can’t eat, sleep, and breathe my work constantly, but the guys I meet want me to live out the “porn persona” version of myself all the time. How does someone who does porn know who you … May 10 1 Podmass 5/10/21 Podmass 5/10/21 Podmass Julia Fox and friends knock some sense into a cop on new podcast Marnie Shure , Craig D. Lindsey , and Anthony D Herrera 9 1 KJ Kearney and Anela Malik are both social media influencers, but they want to do more than ser ve up food porn. Malik , of travel and recipe blog Feed The Malik , and Kearney , founder of Black Food Fridays (an initiative encouraging people to order from Black-owned restaurants each Friday), have collaborated on Fix Your … May 10 Save For Our Consideration 5/10/21 For Our Consideration 5/10/21 B+ For Our Consideration A wild night of “research” with Robert Downey Jr. and other stories from Andrew McCarthy’s new memoir Gwen Ihnat 41 Save Andrew McCarthy will forever be known to most people as Blaine, the “major appliance” who steals Molly Ringwald’s heart in the 1986 John Hughes classic, Pretty In Pink . Before that, the East Coast native had gotten his start in bawdy prep school comedy Class , then reteamed with co-star Rob Lowe in Joel Schumacher’s … May 10 1 Recommends 5/10/21 Recommends 5/10/21 Recommends What are you reading in May? Katie Rife , Gwen Ihnat , and William Hughes 25 1 In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month? Advertisement May 9 1 Newswire 5/9/21 Newswire 5/9/21 Newswire It's Mother's Day, so let's just talk about how the Kentucky Derby horse failed a drug test Sam Barsanti 34 1 Look, The A.V. Club is a pop culture news and reviews website and today is the second Mother’s Day of the coronavirus pandemic. If you’re spending the day with your family or whatever, you’re probably not reading this. If you’re not spending the day with your family for whatever reason, you probably don’t want to read … May 9 Save Wiki Wormhole 5/9/21 Wiki Wormhole 5/9/21 Wiki Wormhole Before in-game ads, these video games were ads Mike Vago 75 Save This week’s entry: Advergames May 6 Save Interview 5/6/21 Interview 5/6/21 Interview Henry Zebrowski has fond memories of being attacked by bats Katie Rife 13 Save Henry Zebrowski needs an outlet for his yelling. That might seem harsh, but we’re not saying anything he doesn’t. On his podcasts, the comedian—who you may recognize from his roles on shows like Superstore , Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell , and Crashing —often worries out loud about whether his obsessions with aliens … May 5 Save Great Job Internet 5/5/21 Great Job Internet 5/5/21 Great Job Internet How YouTube is keeping the memory of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark alive Matt Schimkowitz 72 Save There are few bombs quite like Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark . It had the talent; it had the characters; it had Bono and the Edge (who hates those guys?). However, despite all the elements being in place, Broadway was the one area of New York that wasn’t welcoming to Spider-Man—probably J. Jonah Jameson’s doing. … Advertisement May 5 Save Reviews 5/5/21 Reviews 5/5/21 B+ Reviews Jujutsu Kaisen begins its new arc by talking too much Justin Carter 6 Save [ Note: This review mentions recent plot events in Jujutsu Kaisen . ] May 5 Save Preview 5/5/21 Preview 5/5/21 Preview 5 new books to read in May Laura Adamczyk and William Hughes 5 Save Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about. May 5 1 Savage Love 5/5/21 Savage Love 5/5/21 Savage Love This week in Savage Love: Switched on Dan Savage 66 1 You’ve said that everyone is entitled to a “zone of erotic autonomy.” I was wondering if you thought that “zone” extends to sending thousands of dollars to a “FinDom.” I’m a 33-year-old straight woman and I love my husband and we have a great (or so I thought) sex life. He’s very dominant and controlling in bed and … May 4 Save Reviews 5/4/21 Reviews 5/4/21 A- Reviews Way Of X #1 sheds a light on the darkest aspects of X-Men’s Krakoa era Oliver Sava 25 Save [ This review reveals major plot points for Way Of X #1. ] Advertisement May 3 Save Podmass 5/3/21 Podmass 5/3/21 Podmass Keke Palmer and Pete Davidson play convincing (and hapless) corporate assassins in Hit Job Marnie Shure , Craig D. Lindsey , Morgan McNaught , and 1 more 5 Save Maybe it’s just where we find ourselves in this stage of late-stage capi ta lism, but this farcical narrative fiction podcast about a post-Purge murder-for-hire company just hits. Hit Job , Audible’s new 12-part scripted series, imagines a world where acts of homicide, just like everything else, can be outsourced for a … May 3 Save Reviews 5/3/21 Reviews 5/3/21 B- Reviews With Hail Mary , the author of The Martian tries to recapture that old man-vs.-space magic Alex McLevy 56 Save As Ready Player One ’s Ernest Cline is to outdated pop culture references, Andy Weir is to the science of space. The author of The Martian shares the same guileless enthusiasm for the intricacies of his obsession, the same willingness to sacrifice all other elements of a novel—pacing, structure, characterization—on the … May 2 Save Wiki Wormhole 5/2/21 Wiki Wormhole 5/2/21 Wiki Wormhole The Mad Pooper created a crapfest in 2017 Mike Vago 82 Save This week’s entry: The Mad Pooper Apr 30 Save Great Job Internet 4/30/21 Great Job Internet 4/30/21 Great Job Internet Horror maestro Junji Ito offers feedback on a bunch of scary internet art Reid McCarter 13 Save Advertisement Apr 28 Save Reviews 4/28/21 Reviews 4/28/21 Reviews A comics icon returns with Monsters , the horror story superhero publishers wouldn’t tell Oliver Sava 18 Save For decades, Barry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters was a comic-book urban legend. Originally pitched in 1984 as an Incredible Hulk one-shot exploring Bruce Banner’s abusive childhood, the story was shelved because of the word “goddamn” and then later repurposed during Bill Mantlo’s run on the series, infuriating Windsor-Smit h … Apr 28 1 Interview 4/28/21 Interview 4/28/21 Interview Quinta Brunson is more of a Universal Studios type of girl Katie Rife 11 1 Quinta Brunson is what marketing consultants might call a “digital native.” Her breakthrough in comedy came with an Instagram series, “ The Girl Who’s Never Been On A Nice Date ,” and making videos for BuzzFeed was one of several ways—alongside writing, acting, and performing stand-up—that this Philadelphia native built … Apr 28 1 Savage Love 4/28/21 Savage Love 4/28/21 Savage Love This week in Savage Love: Quickies Dan Sava...