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Self-Made: What It Means to Retell a Classic Like ‘The Great Gatsby’
Cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Next year marks the hundredth anniversary of the publishing of The Great Gatsby, a...
Willow Whitaker
Feb 27, 2024

“The Devil’s Been Down in Georgia: A History of the Southern Gothic”
American Novelist Toni Morrison: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/going-to-the-movies-with-toni-morrison The American South...
Jess Reed
Dec 28, 2023

The Desire to be Sad: The Prevalence of the “Trauma Plot”
Image source: oliSUNvia on youtube It seems like every book, TV show, and movie these days is driven by a tragic backstory. What happened...
Megan Mulligan
Dec 28, 2023

Stephen King’s Misery and the Feminine Monster
(Still from the 1990 film adaptation of Misery) Via Talk Film Society If the traditional dynamic of scary man versus pretty girl doesn’t...
Katie Gough
Dec 28, 2023

Empathy, Miscarriages, and Middlemarch
Cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot Middlemarch by George Eliot is subtitled A Study on Provincial Life and that is exactly what it is....
Naomi Nicholas
Dec 28, 2023

I and you / you and me: Understanding Queer Doubling
Book illustration from The Picture of Dorian Grey Doubling is understood as “...the multiplication of a character…where the resulting...
Willow Whitaker
Nov 20, 2023

The Yellow Wallpaper and the Stigmatization of Postpartum Psychosis
The Yellow Wallpaper Giving birth is traumatic. Risks of emergency C-sections, vaginal tearing, and many other possibilities can leave...
Isabella Cusack
Nov 20, 2023

Crime and Punishment: Morality and the Importance of First Principles
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky It is the mistake of every new generation to assume that they are the first of their kind....
Christian Burke
Oct 24, 2023

Grooming, Pedophilia, and Sexualization - A Lesson in Semantics
A March 2022 Protest in St. Petersburg, FL over the Passage of HB 1557 In recent years, conservative American ideologues have launched a...
Emma Behrens
Sep 24, 2023

“Youth, Nihilism, and the Importance of ‘The Orange’”
“Still life with a book and oranges” by Paul Signac “The Orange” by Wendy Cope is a short but sweet poem about the simplicities of...
Willow Whitaker
Aug 13, 2023

The Crisis of Modern Masculinity: What It Means “To Be a Man”
An artistic interpretation based off of a statue of Zeno of Citium, the Father of Stoicism. His philosophy was defined by indifference in...
Amari I. Seldon
May 15, 2023

All About Love
Writer and social critic Bell Hooks posing for a photo on December 16, 1996 In her 1999 book All About Love, the esteemed scholar,...
Christopher Clarke
May 15, 2023

Humans and Monsters: An Analysis of Current Anti-Trans Legislation in the United States
Adapted “The Nightmare” from My Favorite Thing is Monsters In My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris, ten year old Karen draws out...
Willow Whitaker
Apr 24, 2023

“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you:” The Past and Present of Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid by Alex Galván “Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.” These are the words of Walt Whitman, from his...
Isabella Cusack
Mar 22, 2023

“Mother Nature Should've Gone to Planned Parenthood: Frankenstein in Post-Dobbs America”
Cover photo: Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com) Mary Shelley was 18 years...
Jess Reed
Feb 27, 2023

“The Secret History of The Secret History”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt - Downers Grove Public Library (dglibrary.org) Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History is...
Jess Reed
Dec 20, 2022

How An Angel Falls From Grace
At what point does an angel fall from grace? To address this question, it is necessary to consider what properties are inherently...
Amari I. Seldon
Dec 6, 2022


Femme in Public
Alok posing for a photo Alok Vaid-Menon is a revered non-binary activist, scholar, poet, writer, and comedian. Alok has devoted their...
Christopher Clarke
Nov 20, 2022

Battered Woman Syndrome: The Correlation Between Two Short Stories from the 1910s and the 1984 State
On July 24, 1984, Gladys Kelly stood on trial in front of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She had come to appeal what she felt to be...
Sloane Barbre
Nov 20, 2022


Magical Realism, Horror, and Her Body and Other Parties
*Spoilers Ahead for Her Body and Other Parties What is your favorite fairytale? Beauty and the Beast? The Little Mermaid? The Princess...
Ella Gammel
Oct 23, 2022
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