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The Puck Stops Here: A Hockey Lit Survey
David DavisNov 11, 2012
YA Fiction and the End of Boys
Nov 8, 2012
In Defense of Data: Responses to Stephen Marche’s “Literature Is not Data”
Two rebuttals to 'Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities'
Holger S. Syme, Scott SeliskerNov 5, 2012
The Gorey Details
The joy of Edward Gorey's macabre musings
Jillian SteinhauerOct 31, 2012
Halloween Fiction Roundtable
Francesca Lia Block, Matthew Specktor, Stefan Kiesbye, Susan Straight, Toby BarlowOct 31, 2012
- Fiction
New Girl and The Mindy Project: The Sitcom Special
'Good Grief'
Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakOct 31, 2012
The English Iliad
On three English translations of 'The Iliad'
John FarrellOct 30, 2012
- History
- Poetry
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Origins of the Book of Mormon
The parallels between 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the 'Book of Mormon'
William L. DavisOct 30, 2012
Paul Ryan’s Pregnant Pause
On 'the Republican Party's intellectual leader' and the problem with 'personhood'
Roxana BadinOct 30, 2012
Literature Is not Data: Against Digital Humanities
'Big data is coming for your books.'
Stephen MarcheOct 28, 2012
New Girl: "Models"
Go Back to Start, Do Not Pass Go
Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakOct 27, 2012
Digging Up the Winter: A Collage about the Making of a Film
On the film adaptation of James Welch's 'Winter in the Blood'
Michael PeckOct 27, 2012
- Cultural Studies
- Film
In Search of Lost Plots: On Viktor Shklovsky
On recent translations of the Russian formalist's 'Bowstring' and 'Energy of Delusion'
Jonathan FoltzOct 24, 2012
Skylight Series, Ep. 4: DT Max
Oct 23, 2012
James Deen vs. the Nebbishes
Josh LambertOct 21, 2012
The Tuxedo Theater: On filmmaker Warren Sonbert
David EhrensteinOct 21, 2012