Duende, a new online (and beautifully designed) literary journal run by the good folks in Goddard College’s BFA Program, is…
“Is Your Villain Appropriate?”—Examining Character Construction in Different Media
This post came up today in conversation, and I thought, why not reblog it. Enjoy!
100
And so we start the celebrations, commemorations, what have you, for the 100th anniversary of the First World War. We…
Comics Works: Battling Boy—Execution and Expectations
Battling Boy, the most recent work by cartoonist Paul Pope, arrived from First Second Books last year, although I was…
Being About Aboutness
The title of Joshua Landy’s How to Do Things with Fictions should not lead you to believe that what is…
At Home
In the conclusion to his immense tome, The Culture of the Europeans, Donald Sassoon has one of those brief apercus that…
Victor Holmes
Shortly before Christmas, Maureen and I saw the two versions of the National Theatre production of Frankenstein. In the first…
A paragraph about a paragraph I love
There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way…
Unheimlich?
According to Freud, one of the key characteristics of the Uncanny is the doppelganger. In which case, Eleanor Catton’s marvellous…