Villain Era: How Boy Parts by Eliza Clark Exposes the Trend of Readers’ Craving Unlikeable Female Characters
From Small-Town China to Photographing Raye for British Vogue: An Interview with Jean Yuzheng
If you’ve been at a gig recently, you might’ve spotted Jean and her camera at the front, dancing along, snapping away. You might be one of the many people who’ve seen her images on her Instagram feed (@jeanyuzhengart) or in British Vogue. The images she captures feel like moments: subjects are caught in various states of in-between-ness, like you could touch the screen or print or whatever vessel you’re viewing it on and the image would play, teeming with energy that threatens to spill out and pool in your palms…
Entering My Villain Era: How ‘Boy Parts’ by Eliza Clark Exposes a Wider Trend of Readers’ Cravings for Unlikeable Female Characters
So why is this phenomenon happening now? Why is the world so starved for messy, toxic, unlikeable women in their novels? There has long been a lack of balance between male and female characters in the mainstream media and literary canon. Name any ‘must watch’ film or ‘must read’ book and it is most likely that the main character of said book or film will be a man…