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Category Archive: Popular Fictions

But not just fictions—or maybe, fictions in the most expansive sense, including music, television, film, art, etc. Write here if: something is happening in the popular landscape that tells a story to you.

Half and Half Again

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In the fifth-century BC, in southern Italy, there lived a philosopher called Parmenides, who believed that ontological pluralism—the […]

Bodies and MindsPopular FictionsUncategorized Jenni Quilter

Better Than the Real Thing

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Here’s how it should’ve gone. I watch Martin Scorsese’s 1993 adaptation of The Age of Innocence as a culture-starved […]

Close ReadingPopular Fictions Anna E. Clark

Feminist History of the Teen Drama

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In September 2017, just days after President Donald Trump announced his intended repeal of DACA, the cable channel […]

Popular Fictions Holly Genovese

Shooting Arrows at the Sky

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It doesn’t seem right that the video for Florence+The Machine’s “Sky Full of Song,” shows the singer hugging […]

Popular Fictions Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Breaking Up with the Bachelor

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Last night, The Bachelorette had its 14th season premiere, with Becca Kufrin, a reject from humdrum Arie Luyendyk […]

Popular Fictions Lisa Levy

DIY Whiteness in the Age of Apocalypse

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There’s a shot in John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place that’s too, too lovely. In it, Emily Blunt appears […]

Close ReadingPopular FictionsUncategorized Katherine Fusco

Scooby Doo In the Museum

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The very first episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, which aired in 1969, is set in an […]

Close ReadingPopular FictionsUncategorized Sarah Anne Carter

Half a Person

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“Sixteen clumsy and shy.” Though I have always loved The Smiths’ great song of queer teenaged heartache “Half […]

Popular FictionsUncategorized Desiree Martin

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