There’s a shot in John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place that’s too, too lovely. In it, Emily Blunt appears […]
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.
The very first episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, which aired in 1969, is set in an […]
“Sixteen clumsy and shy.” Though I have always loved The Smiths’ great song of queer teenaged heartache “Half […]
No sooner had I put on my new sweater — a Christmas gift from my parents — than […]
Are we living in the age of the phallus? From Trump’s ever expanding phallic gestures to the number […]
David Hollingshead: Hi Jane! I’m sorry to leave you in the lurch at the eleventh hour but unfortunately […]
Art has many functions. It can dazzle, surprise, break us out of habituated ways of thinking, enrage, bore […]
Sofia Coppola’s latest film, The Beguiled, is as frothy a delight as the pastel-colored macaroons featured in her […]