There was a cathartic validation while reading Roshan Sethi’s debut novel, The Simp, a searingly realistic tale about the absurdity of Hollywood in all its white splendor. The Simp follows the aforementioned Raj, an unemployed actor who lands a job as an assistant to...

SXSW can be an overwhelming experience. For 10 days, you are bombarded by a tsunami of media, films, TV, tech, music, culture, and queso... lots of queso. This year, the annual SXSW fest takes place between March 12–18, curating a seven-day instead of 10-day...

As journalism and media enter an era of highly scrutinized and policed through an authoritarian lens,  Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis's book Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control show us how morally panicked gatekeepers have been trying to...