The Lying Life of Adults

Sarah Chihaya is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University, where she teaches contemporary fiction and film. She is the editor of Contemporaries at Post45.

Sarah Chihaya

Sublimely Ugly: On Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Seeing and Being Seen: A Conversation with Adrian Tomine

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

Boundless

Dissolving Margins

Just Like the First Time? Revisiting “Beauty and the Beast” and “Trainspotting”

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

Sarah Chihaya is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University, where she teaches contemporary fiction and film. She is the editor of Contemporaries at Post45.