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Robinson Crusoe to The Boxcar Children: A New Generation of Protestant Survivalist Story
There’s something satisfying about a story of survival. From popular television shows (Survivor, for the family-oriented,…
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The Role of Violence In Claudia Hernandez’s “De Fronteras”
Even in a new time of ‘peace,’ histories are preserved by those who live through them.
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Rookie, Revisted
Since curating this old-new collection of yearbooks, I’ve been thinking about where Rookie fits into 2024…
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Unlearning and Relearning: Reading and Writing, Again
In the past few years, I’ve been finding my way back to reading that excites and…
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What About That?
It’s safe to say that being a woman is to perform and act.
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Is Yuri Gay? On Queer Representation in Japanese Media
Stories can fall anywhere between lifelong friendships (“they were just really good friends”) to explicit affairs,…
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The Art of Re-Reading: Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You The Sun
There’s pressure to consume books faster, to analyze and synthesize and summarize, and while those things…
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Final Girl Theory
Perhaps next time you sit down at a theater, buttered popcorn in hand and blood-red Icee…
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The Subtle Art of Silliness: How Children’s Media Can Heal our Inner Child
Do you ever wonder why there seems to be a timeless essence to the stories little…
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Classic Fantasy Tropes Upside Down: What Differentiates Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law from The Lord of the Rings
These tropes have been employed throughout literature in so many ways that one wonders: how is…
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