It’s come to my attention that when one is a senior in college and also the editor of a very cool student lit mag, one probably does not have that much time to read for pleasure. It’s also come to...
CONTENT WARNING: this essay includes sexual images, including images of partial nudity, BDSM and torture, as well as discussions of torture, murder and rape.
As the practice of book banning grows at...
Content warning: violence, references to explicit material
“I lie back against the sheets &
Charybdis both this body’s hungry mouths, let
my finger feel what wet wreckage, what good
and...
Horror entertainment, a genre that heavily relies on the use of stereotypes to generate fear and suspense, perpetuates negative beliefs about marginalized groups, leading to further marginalization...
The first time I watched Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” I didn’t get it. This does not seem to be an uncommon experience with the film — its reviews are shockingly divisive, with many of the...
Content warning: gun violence, coarse language
In times of political upheaval, I notice a lot of my fellow writers gearing themselves up as though they’re about to step into war. They post...
Netflix — streaming giant, slayer of BlockBuster Video and host platform to such original classics as “Squid Game,” “Love is Blind,” “Stranger Things,” “Love Island,” “You,” “Temptation...
What do the pope of the Catholic Church and a pope of a satanic clergy have in common? Well, gender nonconformity, for one! Before any pitchforks are raised, this is about two entirely fictional representations...
Growing up, classic literature was framed to me as this terrifying and boring behemoth sure to haunt high school English classes and students’ nightmares for years to come — and I suspect that I wasn’t...
Content Warning: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Self Harm
At the risk of sounding conceited, let’s harken back to two specific quotes from my previous blog posts.
First, in my review of...
*The following is an edited excerpt of a journal entry written on March 6
Today, I had the opportunity to meet Jim Obergefell and hear him talk on a panel about being the plaintiff of Obergefell...
The Bartimaeus Sequence actually started as a trilogy. Written by Jonathan Stroud, the original trilogy was published from 2003 to 2005, with the books in the following order: “The Amulet of Samarkand,”...
