Conscious Paradoxalism

I have been on a metamodernist novelist reading spree.

In his essay “On the Uses and Advantages of History for Life” (Untimely Meditations, 79–81) Nietzsche argues that people are caught in a…

One of the biggest mistakes a reader can make in understanding a work of literature is to mistake the “I” of the novel, poem, or short…

My 9-year-old son, Dylan, is a huge fan of The Beatles. He listens to their music every day. He has tried to play The Beatles’s songs on…

“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”  ― Mark Rothko

Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is in many ways one of the most important postcolonial works of literature to come out of Africa…

The classics have always created controversy, and today’s attacks on the classics are really nothing new, even if the focus on racism…

When it comes to a movie like I Care a Lot, there will inevitably be the claims that it’s a criticism of capitalism. And that is precisely…