It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers often use LGBT characters to make well-worn storylines feel contemporary. […]
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.
Perhaps you don’t realize it, but the world of Richard Linklater fans divides into two stark categories: the […]
The good news about Tina Fey’s Afghanistan movie is that it didn’t make me want to die. In […]
Like any good origin story, I’ve told this one a thousand times: The first comic book I ever […]
In the second or third grade, a girl in my class took me aside one day while we […]
Few pleasures are as intoxicating as arguing with the people you love. I’m not talking about fighting–not about […]
Driven from the house by mid-summer boredom and a rattling air conditioner, my children and I went to […]
“Or perhaps as some non-carbon-based life-form, entirely sprung from the smooth and iconic brow of its founder, […]