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Miriam Toews's Women Talking Explores the Aftermath of Rape in a Remote Mennonite Community
The forward to Miriam Toews’s eighth novel, Women Talking, begins with a punch of horrific reality: “Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia named the Manitoba Colony, after the province in Canada, many girls and women would wake in the morning feeling drowsy and in pain, their bodies bruised and bleeding, having been attacked in the night. The attacks were attributed to… → Read More
"I Must've Busted About 1,000 Nuts in this Bitch": On Ballers Episode 6
If anyone is still out there reading this website, we’ve got big news: Ballers episode six was one for the baller record books—to be remembered time and time again in moments of dark despair. While the world may be crumbling around us, and night begins to fall, it is important to remember that the ballers stop balling for no one. Not even you or I. Not even anyone else. Not even other ballers.… → Read More
Eat Pigeon: An Introduction to M.F.K. Fisher, History's Best Food Writer
It used to be, when it came to food, people had a sort of devil-may-care just-put-the-food-in-your-damn-mouth attitude. This is no longer the case. Today there is more culinary-related material to sift through than ever before: Books! Magazines! Zines! Websites! Cookbooks! GOOP! If you live in one of the country’s many rapidly gentrifying cities, there is probably a new restaurant on your block… → Read More
Several Works of Micro-Fiction Based On the Madewell Fall Lookbook
Here are some small stories: > “Margaret, could you bring in a jar of pepper jelly from the pantry? I’d like to have some with my toast.” But Margaret was too busy dreaming of the calm flat air of the Southwest to hear the question. Advertisement > At home, Winnie wondered if applying to grad school was a good idea. After all, she’d failed the GRE and had missed every deadline and none of the… → Read More
Taylor Swift is Not Your Friend
Heidi Klum struts down a runway and for a moment the stretch appears to ominously resemble a gang plank. At the end of Klum’s long walk waits a tall, thin woman with gleaming white teeth, giddily anticipating a grabby, waist-level embrace between them. Klum, a seasoned runway model, side-steps to the music once or twice, shuffling her feet to the right—one-two—and then to the left—one-two—and… → Read More
"I Just Use the Weed For Pain Management": On Ballers Episode Five
From the Ballers fan mail inbox: “Am I crazy, or is there no article for episode 5 of Ballers? How the hell am I supposed to know how HARD they BALLED?” Readers, did you really believe we’d leave you—our most loyal and dedicated ballers—stranded without a ball? What kind of operation do you think we’re running here? Time to ball out! → Read More
Leonardo DiCaprio Makes a Lot of Grunty Noises in His New Film Trailer
According to IMDB, Leonardo DiCaprio’s last film role was in The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie that existed solely to reignite a national interest in Countaches and Quaaludes. It’s been two long years since DiCaprio was seen hard at work at his greatest artform—the theater of the screen—and finally, he’s been found in a new trailer for his upcoming film, The Revenant. FINALLY!!! Welcome back,… → Read More
The L Magazine—Not to Be Confused with ELLE Magazine—Is Dead
The L magazine, the free bi-weekly circular that was stashed in Nickelodeon-colored plastic bins all around New York City for the greater part of our post-9/11 years, will no longer be available in print, its editors have announced. Long live The L magazine, what a magazine it was. → Read More
Do You Live in a "Bitch" or a "Fuck" State? American Curses, Mapped
Americans love to curse, no fucking question. Fuck this, fuck that, bitchass motherfucking cuntsucker jerk titslut, etc., etc. The question is, which of these bad-boy words are favored where? Who says “fuck” the most? Who says “asshole” the least? Is there a “shit” belt? (As it turns out, yes: From New York City down to the Gulf Coast.) → Read More
Bienvenue à French Gawker!
Bonjour, mes amis, and bienvenue, welcome, to French Gawker, a pop-up site that we have launched in tribute to nos frères across the la mer in bewitching France. Why France? Why today? Why French Gawker? What’s happening here? Qu’est qui se passe? → Read More
Kristen Stewart Lit Her Universe on Fire and Watched It Burn
Kristen Stewart recently made a big change in her life. Anyone know what that was? → Read More
Ballers, Episode Four: How Hard Did the Rock and His Chums Ball?
This week was a big week for the ballers of HBO’s television program Ballers. Do you want to know why? → Read More
The Best Looks from Andy Samberg's 7 Days in Hell (Including a Scrotum)
This weekend, HBO premiered the Murray Miller-written sports mockumentary 7 Days in Hell. It was everything True Detective is not: lighthearted, stupid, and delightfully funny—a perfect summer whatever-a-rita. → Read More
Who Will Be Taylor Swift's Special Guests in New York This Weekend?
This weekend, two Gawker staff writers who shall go unnamed but who look remarkably like they could be sisters of Cara Delevingne and St. Vincent will attend different Taylor Swift concerts in New York, one on Friday night and one on Saturday night. → Read More
Oh, Bother
A two-year-old bear was seen at the University of Colorado Boulder today just minding its damn business (as bears do), hanging in a tree (as bears do), when authorities were called in to bring the little buddy back to its natural habitat. That bear was not enrolled in college—he is only a bear. → Read More
Stampede at Clothing Giveaway Kills at Least 20 in Bangladesh
Police say a clothing giveaway in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, a city north of the capital, ended in the deaths of at least 20 people on Friday when a stampede broke out among hundreds of people trying to rush through narrow factory doors in order to get free clothing. → Read More
Omar Sharif, Beloved Screen Actor and Unforgettable Hottie, Dead at 83
Omar Sharif, a talented film and television actor who featured in some of the best films ever made—from Doctor Zhivago to Lawrence of Arabia to Funny Girl ;)—died in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt on Friday. His agent says Sharif died from a heart attack. He was 83. → Read More
Summer in the City and the Stoop Shrimp Is Looking Good
Stoop shrimp: When you got some shrimp and you put it on the stoop and it’s hot outside and then the shrimp is cooked. Serve it up: Time for some stoop shrimp! You’re gonna love it. I know you will. → Read More
Do You Know Leonardo DiCaprio Is One of the Top Art Collectors ON EARTH?
Last we heard from Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and founding member of the Pussy Posse, he was investing in a mattress company for god knows what reason (sex), and riding CitiBikes around Manhattan with his new model paramour, Kelly Rohrbach, which would seem to suggest that Leo has been having an uncharacteristically lowkey summer. Hm. → Read More
Museum Grown-Ups Put Math Kid In His Place: Nice Try, We Were Right
Joseph Rosenfeld, a 15-year-old Virginia wise guy who visited the Boston Museum of Science in June only to allegedly find an error in a 34-year-old exhibit on the Golden Ratio there, had his ass handed to him by an MIT professor who says that actually his “correction” was wrong. Ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh dip. → Read More