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Cinema in a Little Mirror: The Hays Code and Cultural Dysphoria
Katharine Coldiron looks at the cultural dysphoria caused by the Hays Code in US cinema.
All Essays
The Author Machine
Matthew Blackwell excavates the analog roots of the digital humanities.
The Algorithmic Hustle: Surplus Comedy and Hollywood Specwork
J. D. Connor discusses Netflix’s business model, specwork in comedy, and the extraction of surplus value from Black labor.
My Daughter Took the Bullet for Me: On Talent and Celebrity Dynasties
Ariella Garmaise considers Romy Mars’s viral TikTok through the lens of her mother and grandfather’s film “Life Without Zoë.”
Does It Matter Whether We Know What Academic Freedom Is?
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth explore the crucial differences between free speech and academic freedom.
Who Owns Dungeons & Dragons?
Emily Friedman writes about intellectual property and Dungeons and Dragons.
Unboxing Rilke’s Nachlass
Ian Ellison looks at Rilke's recently acquired archives.
Originality Is Unmusical: On Scott Miller’s Pop Music Criticism
Ivan Kreilkamp looks at the late Scott Miller's pop magnum opus.
Did Philip Roth Read Judy Blume?
Sarah Arkebauer ponders the eerie similarities between Judy Blume’s 1977 novel “Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself” and Philip Roth’s 1979 novel “The Ghost Writer.”
The Glory of Trams
Christopher Atamian and Aram Pachyan meditate on the personal and communal value of tramways.
Anger’s Privilege
Benedict Robinson dicusses anger and the power and privilege associated with it.
Can Art Save Your Life?: On Revolution, Political Prisoners, Climate Activism, and Pink Floyd
Anna Levett muses on the revolutionary potential of art.
The Greeting Card as Poem: Frank Wilderson and the Refiguring of a Genre
Marjorie Perloff reads the Afropessimist author Frank Wilderson’s New Year’s cards as poetry.
To Let an Author Die: Remembering Sylvia Plath, 60 Years On
Jimin Kang takes a literary pilgrimage to remember Sylvia Plath.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Novel
Tom Comitta reflects on the process of growing to love, and eventually write, novels.
The Way Bodies Move: On the Action Cinema of John Hyams
Jonah Jeng discusses director John Hyams’s body of work in the context of “vulgar auteurism” and the direct-to-video renaissance.
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