Darker and Grittier

“The more serious you try to be, the more ridiculous you will become.” Did we unlearn how to wear a straight face? In a review of the latest Batman reboot, Sam Kriss tells us that this fetishist pretending to be a small, half-blind mammal eating moths is a mirror of ourselves. If the world is a masquerade, a game of secret shadowy desires, behind all the seriousness there’s a grim pervert in a silly costume.

Daddy, or The Death of Fantasy

Once upon a time, the silver screen held projections of our deepest desires. But now, even our handsomest sex symbols have lost their deadly edge, drained of their power by pocket-sized screens and eroticism on demand.