TELEVISION

The Picard Maneuver: The Great/Terrible Trek Aesthetic, Inverse

The Briefcase is a Reality Show for the Victorian Era, The Atlantic

The mythic roots and serial appeal of the sibling relationship on TV, AV Club

Decoy: Police Woman Was a Glimpse of Things to Come, AV Club

Kings was an awkward alternate universe, gone too soon, AV Club

FILM

“Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai?”: The Hardest-Working Scene in Movies, Oscilloscope

The Feminine Desert of Mad Max Fury Road, The Dissolve

How the vampire became film’s most feminist monster, The Dissolve

Crimson Peak and the Gothic Family Tree, AV Club

“A Strange and Savage Beauty”: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy, Strange Horizons

There’s No Happy Ending with Me: The Fall, Strange Horizons

The Final Frontier: The Beautiful Fatality of Near Space, Strange Horizons

A Thing That Lives on Tears: Goodness and Clarice Starling, Strange Horizons

Superhuman: Masculinity and Musketeers in Fast and the Furious, Strange Horizons

Growing Up Monstrous with Park Chan-wook’s Stoker, io9

BOOKS AND CULTURE

“I don’t think I’ll venture on dual garmenture”: Rational Dress and the Politics of Biking, The Toast

Ginger Rogers And The Case Of The Authorized Editions, NPR.org

“Vulturism,” Interfictions

Legacy/Frankenstein, NPR.org

The Workings Of Nature: Naturalist Writing And Making Sense Of The World, NPR.org

Ten Worlds About Ben Affleck’s Batman, Strange Horizons

Being Dead Sucks Even More Than You Thought, Vice

The Dark Appeal of Beauty and the Beast, NPR.org

Belle’s costumes don’t fit the live-action Beauty and the Beast, but they sure fit her brand, Vox

How Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Became the Darkest Tale of All, Vice

Three Dragons, Fantasy Magazine

The High Untresspassed Sanctity of Space: Seven True Stories about Eugene Cernan, Lightspeed Magazine