All Essays
Table for One at the Sunset Bistro
Growing Up Female
On the pragmatic feminism of Tamora Pierce.
The Time of Finance
Neoliberal policy embraced the idea that the concern with fundamental values was of little use. What mattered was keeping the system going.
Occasional Corgis: The Crown's Canine Politics
Jane Hu, for Dear Television, has one question: WHERE. ARE. ALL. THE. CORGIS?
Louisiana in Los Angeles: How New Orleans Jazz Traveled to California
Et in Arcadia Ego
How did René Descartes produce "cheap lives"? John W. W. Zeiser on "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things."
Collaboration in the Dark
A Carnal Contact with Reality: On Pasolini’s Novels
On a great director’s neglected novels.
The Dan Graves Situation
How to Read Star Wars
"Star Wars is sacred to millions, and millions are blind to Star Wars." M. W. Lipschutz on the 13 ways of reading the franchise.
“The Last Jedi”: Saving Star Wars from Itself
By connecting female representation to values that challenge toxic masculinity, "The Last Jedi" supplants the franchise’s hero worship with compassion.
Books of Revelation: Christianity and Miracles in the Life and Work of Denis Johnson
Brian Dille, who was Denis Johnson’s friend, gives his perspective on how Christianity and Alcoholics Anonymous informed the “Jesus’ Son” author’s work.
Odysseus as Artist
Pique
The Curious Translucence of Henry Green’s Late-Career Novels
Dustin Illingworth reveals the magic of Henry Green’s late-career novels “Concluding,” “Nothing,” and “Doting.”
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