Here’s how it should’ve gone. I watch Martin Scorsese’s 1993 adaptation of The Age of Innocence as a culture-starved […]
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.
In September 2017, just days after President Donald Trump announced his intended repeal of DACA, the cable channel […]
It doesn’t seem right that the video for Florence+The Machine’s “Sky Full of Song,” shows the singer hugging […]
Last night, The Bachelorette had its 14th season premiere, with Becca Kufrin, a reject from humdrum Arie Luyendyk […]
There’s a shot in John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place that’s too, too lovely. In it, Emily Blunt appears […]
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 […]