Time hovers o’er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the Passages of Joy. June is upon – […]
Category Archive: Close Reading
You may remember the “Romans Go Home” scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. In the dead of […]
I study the history of rhetoric, something that has made me intimately, painfully aware of the long history […]
On the Tuesday before Inauguration Day, a fake news cycle briefly claimed that the poem “Pibroch for the […]
For a while in the mid-1970s, my most reliable companion was a round yellow Panasonic Toot-a-Loop “bracelet” radio. […]
Warning: This is an article replete with Portrait of a Lady spoilers, and that will actually piss you […]
It’s a complete cliché for a lesbian to claim Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women as a key text […]
Literally no one’s favorite “little woman” is Meg. This is because Meg is the most womanly of the […]