LITERATURE & LANGUAGE

Victoria Xia

Oct 30

How a Word Fits in a Mouth: The Wholeness of “Broken” English

A Chinese-English sign in Beijing, China (Wikimedia Commons). The author clarifies their use of “standard English” as “the most...

Akua Appiah-Kusi

Oct 30

Her Hair is BLONDE: The Parasocial Relationship A Reader Can Have With Their Fictional Friend

Leah Sava Jeffries’ portrayal of Annabeth Chase in Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians Reading is imagination at play. Readers...

Megan Mulligan

Oct 1

The Idiot of American Politics

Image : The Idiot cover Fyodor Dosteyevsky didn’t define idiot the way that we do. An idiot isn’t someone without common sense. It’s...