No sooner had I put on my new sweater — a Christmas gift from my parents — than […]
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.
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 […]
I’ve seen The Babadook something like thirty or forty times. I consider it one of the most brilliant […]
You may remember the “Romans Go Home” scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. In the dead of […]
“Zeus, Hera, and…” I paused and glanced at my glass of red wine, “Dionysus.” We were playing a […]