I didn’t realize before now that “rape and revenge” was a genre, so I naively hoped for something subversive from Coralie Fargeat’s thriller Revenge. Three hunters on a desert expedition assault and ...

As a kid, Sayara’s father trained her in martial arts combat. As an adult, her skills are kept secret as she works as a janitor in an Istanbul gym. When her sister is killed by the gym owner and his ...

In the introduction of her memoir Trauma Plot, Jamie Hood invokes the ancient Greek legend of Philomela. After Philomela, a princess, is raped by her brother-in-law Tereus, she threatens to talk, ...