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Nostalgia and Friendly Competition: How to Marie Kondo Your Netflix Queue
Nostalgia and Friendly Competition: How to Marie Kondo Your Netflix Queue
All the shows you loved as a child are back. I clearly remember watching Full House as a kid during ABC’s Friday night TGIF lineup, and now…
Jessica Elzinga
Mar 1, 2019
Breaking Up is Easy: Nick Nolte and Annette O’Toole in 48 Hrs.
Breaking Up is Easy: Nick Nolte and Annette O’Toole in 48 Hrs.
(With an excursus on Eddie Murphy as “clever slave”)
Paul J Hecht
Mar 1, 2019
Maybe Kafka Had It Right
Maybe Kafka Had It Right
A note to the gentle reader. This is a literary/political post so buckle up. We live in Kafkaesque times right now. The Oxford English…
Eileen Dominick Long
Nov 19, 2018
Adventures in Late-Soviet Film: Intergirl and Little Vera
Adventures in Late-Soviet Film: Intergirl and Little Vera
I’m trying to learn Russian, and so I have put myself on a diet of movies and TV in Russian only. I doubt it’s helping my language…
Heather Fielding
Dec 12, 2018
Fruit Snacks, Literature, and Enthusiastic Snapping: A Summer at Stanford University
Fruit Snacks, Literature, and Enthusiastic Snapping: A Summer at Stanford University
With two bags in hand and nervous excitement on my mind, I stepped onto the Stanford University campus. Dusty grass and century-old…
Brenna Nicole Uporsky
Nov 5, 2018
Pride & Prejudice — Who Did It Better?
Pride & Prejudice — Who Did It Better?
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice has been adapted onto film more than any other Jane Austen novel. Within…
Eileen Dominick Long
Oct 31, 2018
Anime For All Ages
Anime For All Ages
Written by Mia Howard
Amy Howard
Mar 1, 2019
Learning From the Master Storyteller
Learning From the Master Storyteller
The process of fiction writing is something that can be elusive, frustrating, and in those rare moments when done right, one of the most…
Eileen Dominick Long
Nov 12, 2018
Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben (der film)/ Despite everything (film)
Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben (der film)/ Despite everything (film)
Five per cent blindness — is it enough to fulfill a dream?
Mariya Shkola
Mar 1, 2019
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