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View ArticleThe Moral Arc of N.K. Jemisin’s Universe Bends Toward Apocalypse
Fantasy has traditionally been a conservative genre. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis’s Narnia provide the blueprint; a just, magical realm is threatened with destruction by dark,...
View ArticleKate Beaton Applies Her Graphic Genius to the Tyranny of Babies
“Bam! Pow! Comics aren’t just for kids anymore!” That headline has been appearing in mainstream publications for decades—so much so that it’s become an Onion joke. News outlets are, somehow, always...
View ArticleWhy Do We Love Watching Women Self-Destruct?
Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears—they were all women whose personal scandals overshadowed, and sometimes swallowed entirely, their own artistry. “Women who...
View ArticleBob Dylan Isn’t Even America’s Greatest Literary Songwriter
Bob Dylan has done it again. He has mischievously upended the verities, and stuck a guitar pick in the eye of Mr. Jones. Winning the Nobel is the latest of his predictable mischievous victories; he’s...
View ArticleWas Superman Jewish?
Superman’s an immigrant from a planet-wide Holocaust who comes to America to make good. Created by Jewish writer Jerry Siegel and Jewish artist Joe Shuster, Superman’s the “smart Jewish boy’s American...
View ArticleHemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges
Ken Russell’s 1988 vampire goof Lair of the White Worm is better than Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 classic The Old Man and the Sea. It’s not even much of a contest. Hemingway’s tale is sodden with maudlin...
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