Beholding Beatrix
by Amalia Rizos Beatrix (2021), dir. Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner Watching the new Austrian film Beatrix is akin to…
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Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death
by Destini Baylis Adams A Very Easy Death (1964) by Simone de Beauvoir We are all going to die. No…
She Had, She Lost, She Whined: Mona at Sea
by James Freyland Mona at Sea (2021), by Elizabeth Gonzalez James In his 1967 critique of capitalism, Guy Debord notes,…
The Righteous Gemstones Knows America Too Well
by Colleen Secaur The Righteous Gemstones (season 2, 2022), created by Danny McBride There seems to be a common understanding…
Why Should People Read Maus?
by Samantha Reddick Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1991) by Art Spiegelman With the surge of anti-Semitic hate crimes, Art Spiegelman’s…
Memory and Present-Dystopia in Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House
by Natasha Roy The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan’s new novel, The Candy House, borrows its title…
Maggie Nelson Blunts her Teeth
By Natasha Roy ON FREEDOM: Four Songs of Care and Constraint By Maggie Nelson I am something of a Maggie…
Meat with a First and Last Name
By Sophia Anderson TENDER IS THE FLESH By Agustina Bazterrica Translated by Sarah Moses “Horrifying,” “unnerving,” “brilliant”— these were the…
Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults: Giovanna’s Search for Home
By Margaux Trexler THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS By Elena Ferrante Translated by Ann Goldstein In Elena Ferrante’s latest work,…
The Beautiful World is Right Here
By Aleksandra Goldberg BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU By Sally Rooney Millennial Irish author, Sally Rooney, took the literary world…