If you're familiar with the writing of cultural theorist and freelance critic Mark Dery, you already know he writes in loop-de-loops and mazes, often embedding the meanings of his sentences in ...

In the introduction to his new book of essays, “I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams“ (University of Minnesota Press), Mark Dery lays out the foundation ...

In this fourth installment of Mark Dery’s cultural critique-cum-“nonfiction novella” about a born-again teen’s transcendent encounter with Ziggy Stardust in the 1970s, our hero reckons with a ...

Mark Dery misses the point by linking homophobia to misguided heterosexual models of masculinity. Ann Coulter and Don Imus can get away with their virulent anti-gay vocabulary and ideology because of ...

“I do believe it’s the political business of the cultural critic to poke the sharp end of his pen into the buried truths and dirty secrets, fringe subcultures and borderline personalities that often ...

In this new collection of essays, Cultural critic Dery (The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium) pokes fun at American popular culture and shines light on subjects often considered taboo. Exploring music, ...

Whether you're starting your spring break or just slacking off work for another week, there's no better way to wile away your idle hours than reading through Mark Dery's new collection of essays I ...

The cultural critic Mark Dery galvanized a generation of artists and intellectuals when he argued during the 1990s that African-Americans whose histories had been obscured by slavery and racism were ...