Pinochet In the Shadows

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Sep 8, 2023 Pablo Larraín’s political satire imagines a deathless dictator with literal fangs. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Most Horrifying Look at Monsanto Yet

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Apr 22, 2019 Samanta Schweblin has terrified readers across the globe precisely because she tells familiar stories we should all dread. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Jordan Peele Exposes ‘Us’ for Who We Really Are

Carrie Rickey / Truthdig Mar 20, 2019 The "Get Out" director’s second feature is ambitious, and his blending of horror with social criticism leaves a haunting impression. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

In Reality, Every Night Is ‘Purge’ Night

Leslie Lee / Truthdig Jul 28, 2018 Class- and race-conscious and uncomfortably relevant, the politically charged horror franchise doesn’t just amount to a big-screen nightmare. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Horror, the Horror

Nomi Prins / Truthdig Feb 28, 2014 If the Congolese can maintain hope in their horrific circumstances, and journalists like Michael Deibert literally risk their lives to bring us their stories, then it's our human obligation to read them.If the Congolese can maintain hope in horrific circumstances, and journalists like Michael Deibert risk their lives to bring us their stories, then it's our human obligation to read them. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Boo!

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Nov 25, 2013 Does what should be deeply disturbing, even apocalyptically terrifying, in the present moment strike many of us as the equivalent of so many movie-made terrors -- shivers and fears produced in a world so far beyond us that we can do nothing about them? Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

This ‘Hitchcock’ Is Frightfully Off

Richard Schickel / Truthdig Nov 26, 2012 He was never dark or monstrous as this film makes him seem Rather the opposite There was something -- well -- childlike about him There was something—well—childlike about him. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Hundreds Dead in Western China Quake

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2010 A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit China's western Qinghai province Wednesday morning, killing an estimated 400 people and injuring thousands more in yet another natural disaster for the developing world. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Poe’s Poems Fetch Big Bucks at Auction

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2009 Edgar Allan Poe may have died penniless, but his poems are now worth a heap of money -- $662,500, to be exact. On Friday, an unidentified bidder at a Christie's auction in New York paid just that much for a first-edition collection of poems by the master of the macabre, titled "Tamerlane and Other Poems" and printed under the vague pseudonym of "A Bostonian." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Night of the Living Deadbeats

David Sirota / Truthdig Oct 9, 2009 Zombies have made a pop culture comeback. It might have something to do with all the undead banks and the bankers whose careers live on after the economic apocalypse they caused. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Stephen King: If You Don’t Read, ‘You’ve Got the Army, Iraq’

Staff / Truthdig May 6, 2008 Author Stephen King made an appearance last month at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he discussed, among other things, the importance of literacy. As King put it: "I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )