Paula Rabinowitz’s American Pulp, her analysis of the impact of cheap paperback books on American culture is so enthusiastic and informative that her occasional lapses into impenetrable academese can ...

Unknown artist, “Untitled” (Woman holding pig, cop in pursuit) (1960–75), tempera on illustration board, 15 x 11 in (38.1 x 27.94 cm) Postwar pulp art south of the border was distinctly surreal. In ...

The steamy, seamy world of lesbian pulp fiction–one whose heyday, in the ’50s and early ’60s, is long gone–both reflected and challenged an American culture riddled with repression. Named after the ...

Cheap paperback books are like sex: They claim attention, elicit memories good and bad, and get talked about endlessly. The mid-20th century was the era of pulp, which landed in America in 1939. You ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter "No analysing influences, no talking composition. The more lurid, the better." Ed Jaster is explaining how collectors at a recent art ...

The cover illustrations of the drugstore paperback pulp novel have become a lost art. But for the first several decades of the 20th century, many commercial artists created striking images using ...