Secretary never exploits or stereotypes BDSM for sport; never uses it as a sideshow; never markets it as a pathology to overcome. Read More
PositionContributing Editor
JoinedMay 27, 2017
Articles7
Kara Shroyer is a writer and editor who lives in Chicago, drinks tea, and falls asleep at parties. She is a former senior editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room, the previous managing editor of This Recording, and a former arts & culture contributor at Gapers Block.
A Christmas Story, children who dream of growing up, and adults who dream of being young again. Read More
Casablanca hinges and cracks opens on a quiet montage of two lovers wooing one another in Paris before the story even began. Read More
San Francisco Chronicle July 17, 1972 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Frederick Larabee, founder of the Larabee Foundation, was among more than... Read More
Angels in America belongs in a psalter—not because of its spiritual rambling, but because of its poetry. Read More
Blue Velvet reminds us that we are almost never ready for the things that end up shaping us the most. Read More
In the Coen brothers’ 1996 film Fargo, Jerry Lundegaard walks into a North Dakota bar in a cloud of discomfort and, we imagine, arctic air. Read More