All Essays

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  The Voice of the Sea: Hurricanes in Life & Literature

  The legacy of the hurricane in literature and Louisiana

  Ingrid NortonOct 17, 2012

  • Cultural Studies

  • Fiction

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  Exploding the Canon: On the African Writers Series

  Anna ClarkOct 16, 2012
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  Serial Killer: On “American Horror Story”

  On Ryan Murphy's maximalist melodrama and the possibilities of 'anthology' TV

  Phillip MaciakOct 15, 2012
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  Howard & Leo & Willie & Carol & Art & Michael & Vasco & Janis & Jacqui & Jack: A Speakership Fight In California

  Howard Berman fights for his political life

  Jamie WolfOct 13, 2012
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  Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 3, Post 3

  A Toast to the Douchebags

  Jane HuOct 12, 2012
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  Howard & Leo & Willie & Carol & Art & Michael & Vasco & Janis & Jacqui & Jack: A Speakership Fight In California, Part 2

  Jamie WolfOct 12, 2012

• Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 3, Post 2

  How To Crush It

  Oct 12, 2012
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  Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 3, Post 1

  Of In-Groups and Out-Groups

  Lili LoofbourowOct 11, 2012
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  Hungry Ghosts: Sex and the Sixth Sense

  On following and straying from the 'righteous' path of desire

  Lisa TeasleyOct 11, 2012
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  The Most Romantic Story Ever Told

  On 'Beauty and the Beast'

  Aimee BenderOct 11, 2012

  • Cultural Studies

  • Fiction

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  Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Wolves

  On the politicization of Wilder, author of 'Little House on the Prairie'

  Caroline FraserOct 10, 2012

  • Cultural Studies

  • Fiction

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  The Haunting of “Homeland”

  On Showtime's "Homeland," an American ghost story

  Sean HigginsOct 9, 2012
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  Hate the Beatles!

  Their first single was released 50 years ago this month. Mark Edmundson was not a fan.

  Mark EdmundsonOct 8, 2012

• Whither Feminism?: Gender and The New Normal

  On 'The End of Men,' 'Vagina,' and 'Gaga Feminism'

  Oct 7, 2012
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  Look No More Backward: George Eliot and Atheism

  On 'the first great godless writer of fiction.'

  Oct 5, 2012
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  Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 2, Post 3

  Moby-Nick, or The Whale Belt

  Phillip MaciakOct 5, 2012