Wilson Taylor is a teacher and writer interested in modern and contemporary literature and film. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and occasionally tweets @wilsonltaylor.
Wilson Taylor
Articles
“Summon the Shadows of Ages Past”: Negotiating The Northman’s Antimodernism
Wilson Taylor analyzes the superficial glorification of the premodern in Robert Eggers’s “The Northman.”
Learning How to Die in “The Green Knight”: Existential Dread, Ecological Despair, and the Last Days of Camelot
Wilson Taylor considers the existential, political, and environmental resonances of “The Green Knight” (dir. David Lowery, 2021).
Despite All My Rage: Neocolonial Cage in “The White Tiger”
Wilson Taylor considers the shortcomings of Ramin Bahrani's adaptation of "The White Tiger."
All Too Human: On Kurt Vonnegut’s Legacy
Tally proposes many specific interpretations of Vonnegut's novels, though his ultimate motive is to lay the broad foundation for ongoing critical studies of Vonnegut.
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