Virtual Enemy at the MIT Museum
“The Enemy,” the MIT Museum's first virtual reality exhibition, had begun. For the next hour, everything I experienced would be designed expressly...
Wai Chee Dimock
Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She has published widely on American literature of every period, and is best known for Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (2007). Editor of PMLA, her essays have also appeared in Critical Inquiry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Her team-edited American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (2017) was published by Columbia University Press in January.
Articles
Animating the Ocean
Wai Chee Dimock on the oceans of "Moana" and Jack London.
The Queen of the Night Sings Hamlet
Wai Chee Dimock Stephen Frears's "Florence Foster Jenkins."
Lobster in Purgatory
On the irresolutions of Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Lobster".
Half-and-Half: Iñárritu Remixes James Fenimore Cooper
"The Revenant" turns a derogatory term into an existential condition, yielding a new visual field.
Pixar and the Brain Scientists
"Inside Out" is billed as a "major emotion picture," so it is not surprising that "thought" is pretty much a bad word throughout.
Books in Space: Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”
“Interstellar” is bookish to a fault.
A Boyhood Epic
On Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood'
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