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My Brilliant Ferrante: A Retrospective on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet

In July of last year, the New York Times ranked Elena Ferrante’s 2011 novel, My Brilliant…
Lending and Learning: The Revolution of the Library

While I never took the library’s resources for granted, it took learning more about overlapping library-affiliated…
“But What Was She Wearing?”: Little Red Riding Hood and a Critique of Condemnation in Children’s Literature

The world of Little Red Riding Hood may be full of dark forests and cunning wolves,…
Japan’s Oppenheimer Problem: Fact, Fiction, and Storytelling in Modern Politics

The Japanese government continues to censor national fact, fiction, and storytelling. To make sense of this…
Don’t Kill the Bug! Kafka’s Plea for Self Preservation in The Metamorphosis

While these common interpretations of The Metamorphosis are compelling, they often cast Gregor as the culprit,…
The Ties That Bind: Toxic Motherhood in White Oleander

When we think of famous literary mothers, the nurturing and uncomplicated ones tend to place foremost…
Soundtrack Your Reading

There are countless moving parts in a film needed to craft an immersive visual experience, aided…
How “Old” Literature Reminds Us of Our Humanity in the Modern Era

It is easy to become jaded in the modern sphere inundated with constant digital news and…
The Best Writer You’ve Never Heard Of: Richard Yates and the Dead Genius of American Suburbia

Lost somewhere among the threads that stitch twentieth-century greats like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Morrison, and Faulkner into…
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy: What to Expect from Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Adaptation

Literary fans rejoiced this summer upon the announcement of a new Wuthering Heights film adaptation to…