Teenage Wasteland: The Endurance of Archie Andrews
Nora Hickey09.15.15
Nora Hickey shows that we’re all trying to find our way back to something and that Archie comics are weirder than you likely are aware of.
Conception Tourism at Levitated Mass
Fortunato Salazar09.14.15
What inspires people to want to try to have procreative sex under a 340-ton boulder? Fortunato Salazar investigates the Levitated Mass at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
How (Not) to Apologize
Molly Brodak09.10.15
Is your “apology” actually an apology, or a backhanded method of defense? Molly Brodak takes a deeper look.
Fifteen Minutes
Jimmy Chen09.09.15
“I guess I’m a little ambivalent about, quote, meeting someone from Tinder at the museum, end quote.” New prose in dialogue from Jimmy Chen.
Coolness, Class, and the Canon: Blue Velvet vs. Something Wild
Scott Creney09.03.15
Why is David Lynch’s Blue Velvet considered a classic, while Jonathan Demme’s strangely parallel Something Wild is not? Scott Creney provide a close critical evaluation of two of 1986’s strangest films.
Big Girls
Sara Finnerty08.31.15
A heartbreaking and beautifully crafted personal essay on motherhood, being big, and loving too much.
STRATAGEM OF THE CORPSE
Gary J. Shipley08.24.15
Gary Shipley explores the effect of two works of art that simulate the corpse, by Jeremy Millar and Ron Mueck, through the lenses of Levi and Baudrillard.
ENVY, THE UNSUCCESSFUL WRITER’S FRIEND
Greg Gerke08.18.15
Literary envy among writers runs rampant more than ever in the age of the comment forum and social media. What can be done with it?
Is This The Most Hated Novel To Ever Win A Major Award?
Shane Jones08.17.15
Shane Jones looks back on a contentious year for the National Book Awards.
Smithereens: On Robert Walser’s Microscripts
Gary J. Shipley07.13.15
An in-depth look into Robert Walser’s notoriously claustrophobic “microscript” style of making text.
