Literally no one’s favorite “little woman” is Meg. This is because Meg is the most womanly of the […]
Category Archive: Close Reading
I have read and taught Little Women more times than I can count. I’d be lying if I […]
Making a case for Meg, Beth, or Amy March takes imagination, generosity of spirit, fortitude. Making a case […]
When you’re drunk and puking, you need someone to hold your hair. It’s just too much otherwise: you […]
This week brought the quickly dismissed news that Elena Ferrante had — and then, had not — signed […]
There is a scene mid-way through Alejandro Iñnàritu’s The Revenant in which the brutally injured fur trapper Hugh […]
You’re never more yourself than when you’re reading Frankenstein. The novel is a Rorschach test, a blot of […]
“Laura had to play outdoors by herself, and she had a queer feeling about the prairie. It didn’t […]