Roland Barthes
Laurent Binet on Messing with His Readers' Minds
The French writer talks semiotics, Foucault, pulp novels and James Bond.
The Spectacle of Excess: Pro Wrestling and the Concept of the "Perfect Bastard"
In 1972, the literary theorist Roland Barthes wrote an essay in which he called wrestling "the pure gesture which separates good from evil" and discussed the concept of "the perfect bastard". How much of that holds true today?
Author Maggie Nelson Is in Drag as a Mother and as a Married Person
We caught up with the critically acclaimed 'Argonauts' author to talk about happiness, "crappy" fiction, and the whole narrative behind "becoming a mother."
Dozens Of Photos "Sampled" Into Creepy Composite Castle
Jim Kazanjian's newest image brings a photographic approach to the act of sampling.
Richard Prince, Roland Barthes, & Remythologizing the Myth of the Cowboy
Richard Prince came to the attention of the art world in the 1980s for appropriating the Marlboro Man advertisements into his own photographs. Eventually one of his Cowboy photographs would become the first photo sold for more than $1 million, but is...