Here’s how it should’ve gone. I watch Martin Scorsese’s 1993 adaptation of The Age of Innocence as a culture-starved […]
Category Archive: Close Reading
There’s a shot in John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place that’s too, too lovely. In it, Emily Blunt appears […]
HBO just released a movie about Joe Paterno’s role in the child rape outrages at Penn State (where […]
The very first episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, which aired in 1969, is set in an […]
W. B. Yeats’s “The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid” is a poem about turning older and being gifted with […]
Here’s one of the things keeping me up at night: how do we do our scholarly work when […]
“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is […]
Are we living in the age of the phallus? From Trump’s ever expanding phallic gestures to the number […]