Feminine Fantasy: Mrs. Maisel as the Dawn of a New Era

When Mrs. Maisel strode on stage at The Gaslight in the first episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, she stepped into a new era for herself and for fictional representations of female comedians. In the rare cases when they have been the…

Fiction in a War-torn World

Preeti Zachariah

I was seven or eight when I first learned about the Second World War. My paternal grandfather had a silver box in his study engraved with a message: “To Colonel JP Zachariah for being taken as a prisoner of war for the second time.” It was a wedding gift…

“Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club” and Reality TV Schadenfreude

By Lisa Peterson

Teals for Feels

On Weezer’s Teal Album, nostalgia vibes, and the upside of embarrassment

It can take decades to recover from some embarrassments. When Weezer released their second album, Pinkerton, in 1996, frontman and principal songwriter Rivers Cuomo took the bad reviews personally…