“I Wore a Ski Mask to Hide My Shame”: *White Noise* Review
White Noise, directed by Noah Baumbach, is a confident, often chaotic, and consistently funny adaptation of the 1985 novel by Don...
Like Twilight
I used to hide behind my Grandfather's shelf to espy My little lilies grow. Awestruck and mostly dejected, Because I never got to See, I...
Incoming Transmission—To My Brother
Hello. Stop. Sorry for delayed reply. Stop. Connection has been weak. Stop. Has taken 19 years to build. Stop. Correction. Rebuild....
How To Grow Up Through Hairy Situations
1. July 24th, 1996. I come into spontaneous existence and into my mother’s arms. My birth goes off without a hitch—my parents have...
“Uninterrupted Joy, Unrivalled Love”: Reading *Paradise Lost* Through Affective Prayer
Abstract Richard Meek and Erin Sullivan call scholars to consider “the ways in which other intellectual and creative frameworks [beyond...
Memory, Agency, and Gothic Atmosphere in William Godwin’s *Caleb Williams*
William Godwin’s novel Caleb Williams (1794) depicts late eighteenth-century England as a tangled web of deception and ruthlessness,...
The Mouth in Franz Ferdinand’s “Darts of Pleasure”
The music video for Franz Ferdinand’s 2003 single “Darts of Pleasure” is about seeing the world through the mouth. It follows singer Alex...
Visible worlds and visionary minds
in William Wordsworth’s *The Two-Book Prelude* (1798) and Jorie Graham’s *Materialism* (1993) “There is no object standing between the...
“Something Old, Something New”: Exploring Feminist and Gender Theory within Netflix’s *Dracula*
INTRODUCTION Feminist theory has always dealt with how power is structured between the sexes. Throughout its evolution, however, the...
*Cold War Reckonings* Review
Contrary to common clichés of fraudulent democracies and struggling economies —with their seemingly interchangeable autocratic leaders...
Sonnets from Decivilization
6. “The only way out is through The way you came in,” the Enterprise rep said You explain to me a type of orange car paint That is also...