‘The Genesis of Gender’: A rigorous but compassionate look at transgenderism

Abigail Favale’s “The Genesis of Gender” is a timely counterbalance to the confusion and division promulgated by gender activists who populate many gender and women’s study programs in North American universities. The book rejects the arguments of transgender extremists who look to blur the distinction between male and female for political purposes.

Movie: ‘Beau Is Afraid’

Billed as a dark comedy, writer-director Ari Aster’s deep dive into paranoia is instead a nightmarish, three-hour-long odyssey through a landscape of mental misery.